Help in providing education and health services to children with disability

Disability is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. The earlier emphasis on medical rehabilitation has now been replaced by an emphasis on social rehabilitation. As per Census 2011 disability among children between the age group of 0-9 is 3.41 %. The child with disability becomes the burden on the family especially on woman and she has to spend most of her time on its services. Providing the physical movements and mental development services through project can make tremendous difference.

Community Based Rehabilitation workers facilitate regular home based support to the CWDs and train the family members for self caring / rehabilitation interventions at home. This helps in doing their regular activities by CWD’s with little support from family. The mounting burden on mothers caring the CWD lonely is shared with other members of the family and thus she can be made free to do other household and other works.

Education of children with disability could be done through home based programme. Arranging medicinal treatments for the epilepsy children and measuring of intelligence quotient of the CWD’s would be easy through the home based interventions of the project. Sensitization of parents could be done for the educational and health rights of the CWD’s by forming a committee of their parents.