Educating Disabled Children - Education of Disabled Children in India © 2010
Educating Disabled Children - Education of
Disabled Children in India
Written by: Autism Advisor
Educating Disabled Children
India has some forty to eighty million people living...
More
Educating Disabled Children - Education of Disabled Children in India © 2010
Educating Disabled Children - Education of
Disabled Children in India
Written by: Autism Advisor
Educating Disabled Children
India has some forty to eighty million people living with disability; among them thirty
percent of them are children below the age of fourteen years.
In Indian ninety per cent of
disabled children do not get any form of schooling.
There are number of families which are
living below the poverty and many families have to make choices about which of their kids
they can afford to send to school.
Parents of disabled children have more difficult choices, as
they also have the burden of medical treatment, and others.
No population-based study has been conducted at the national level to supply genuine data on
the prevalence and incidence of disability in India.
Therefore we must rely on the projections
made by trial surveys.
According to an estimation population with disability in India is
Less