Disability: Prevention, management and rehabilitation
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Pages: 265-271
Neena Sawhney and Sneh Bansal (Chandigarh College of Education, Landran, Mohali, Punjab)
Any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being is considered as a disability. The World Health Organization estimates that about 15% of the world’s population has some sort of disability and that 75% of people with disabilities live in developing countries. Nearly ninety percent of the disability is acquired which can be prevented if timely measures are taken. Disability Policy Scholars describe four different historical and social models of disability: 1) Moral model of disability which regards disability as the result of sin; 2) Medical model of disability which regards disability as a defect or sickness which must be cured through medical intervention; 3) Rehabilitation model, an offshoot of the medical model, which regards the disability as a deficiency that must be fixed by a rehabilitation professional or other helping professional; and 4) The Disability model, under which the problem is defined as a dominating attitude of professionals, inadequate support services , attitudinal, architectural, sensory, cognitive, and economic barriers etc. Disability prevention includes all actions taken to reduce the occurrence of impairment (First Level Prevention) and its development into a functional limitation (Second level prevention) and to prevent the transition of functional limitation to disability (Third Level prevention). Individuals with disabilities should be valued and accepted by recognizing their rights as an individual. They need to learn to control their own behaviors to rank among in the community. Self management strategies are developed for this purpose. These strategies include antecedent cue regulation, self-instruction, self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement. In the present paper, an attempt has made to define disability, prevalence, management and treatment, effectiveness of self-management strategies on teaching various behaviors to individuals with disabilities and services provided by community based rehabilitation. Services include early intervention, non-formal and integrated education, vocational training, and preparation for independent living, employment, community education and prevention.
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Pages: 265-271
Neena Sawhney and Sneh Bansal (Chandigarh College of Education, Landran, Mohali, Punjab)