Understanding and Scouting with Physically Handicapped - Hardcover

Goyal, O.P.

 
9788182051461: Understanding and Scouting with Physically Handicapped

Synopsis

The term "disability" refers to a wide variety of conditions, including blindness, deafness, mental retardation, and mobility impairments. Some health professional also consider the term to encompass learning disabilities, mental illness such as autism, and chronic or long-term illness such as epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, or AIDS. The social, legal educational and ethical issues faced by different segments of disabled persons are elaborately described in the present volume. It gives practical advice to legal, professional and academic people to mainstream the disabled form their tragic conditions. It also provides guidelines to individuals with disabilities to enable them to raise self-confidence, overcome challenges become the part of nation building. Besides disabled people, policy makers, academics, counsellors, social workers and teachers and trainers will find this work of utmost use. About The Author:- O.P.Goyal secured his Ph.D in the year 1976 from Rajasthan University, Jaipur. Since then he has passed several milestones and achieved many kudos and award from various prestigious organizations. His major area of interest has been institution building in this regard he has been responsibly associated with the growth of Gurugobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi where he now holds the Position of the Dean Academic Affairs. Prior to that he was founder dean of school of management studies. He held various responsible positions in many prestigious institutions at different points of time. He got selected for American Biographical Institute's award of gold record of achievement for contribution in the field of management sciences and institution building in the year 1997. He has won several other honours and awards at national level. He has several published articles and papers to his credit, besides a text book titled Money, Banking and Public Finance in nine editions. Contents:- Preface ? Introduction ? Societal Responses to Disability Grand Theory: A Phenom

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Synopsis

The term disability refers to a wide variety of conditions, including blindness, deafness, mental retardation and mobility impairments. The social, legal and ethical issues faced by different segments of disabled persons are elaborately described in this volume.

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