Question
What are the common features of 'disability' all over the world?
Solution
- All over the world there have been people who are differently abled. Disability is understood as biological given.
- Whenever confronted with problems, it is taken for granted that the problem originates from their impairment.
- Now a days terms as 'mentally challenged'/visually impaired and 'physically compared' are being used to replace the more trite negative terms such as 'retarded', 'crippled' or 'lame'. The 'disabled' are caused disabled not because they are biologically disabled but society causes them so.
- The social construction of disability has a different dimension. We find a close relationship between disability and poverty, malnutrition, mothers weakened by frequent childbirth, insufficient immunisation programmes, accidents in overpopulated homes. Undoubtedly, disabled people are among the poorest in the poor countries.
