Hello
world,
Life in the
metropolitan city like Mumbai begins daily with
thinking about the task assigned , deadlines , work pressure in the
morning and moves forward to irritation, competitions, expectations
,frustration …finally at the end of the day realizing things are not going in
the direction we want to & always falling short to the expectations . Let
us take a glimpse out of this running life we are leading to the life of those
who are living a different one than the routine. When compared to them our
problems seem to be very immaterial and meager. Yes, I am talking about people
with any sort of disability be it physical or mental or psychological one and
their families too .Just think for a while that moment when you hold your child
for the first time in your hand…One of the happiest moment of your life
right??? And then realizing in few minutes or years that there is something
abnormal, the whole scenario changes. The battle then begins …so knowing about
disabilities is important in order to conquer it.
Disability is limitation in the ability to
perform a normal daily living activity which someone else of the same age is
able to perform. This restriction is
the consequence of an impairment which could be physical, cognitive,
mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability
may be present since birth, early childhood, or occur during a person's
lifetime.
World Health
organization describes disabilities as an umbrella term, which covers /includes
impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body which functional
or structural in nature; an activity
limitation is a difficulty
faced by an individual in carrying out a task or action; a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an
individual in involvement in life situations.
The fact to
understand here is disability is just not health inadequacy but it is a complex
phenomenon which exhibits the interaction between
features of a person’s body inadequacies and limitations and features of the
society in which he or she lives. Overcoming the difficulties experienced by
people who are speciallyabled requires
interventions to remove technological, environmental and social barriers.
Love,
Compassion, sympathy & apathy and the
transition between them will help the people with disabilities to help grow
into confident, independent and productive individuals. Families, society at
large and the government together need to create a strong supportive
environment to make the world
a better place to live in.
