A Profile Of The Physically Handicapped In Karnataka

According to literature available on disability, disabled means any activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. Sociologists and psychologists also have viewed it in different ways. According to Dr. Kessles, physically handicapped are those individual who have a physical defect obvious or hidden, which limits their physical capacity to work. Psychological definition of disability is as follows. “A handicapped impairment or lack in sense-organ or operant behavior functions” such impairment as interferes with other functions, e.g. severe visual disability when it interferes with social learning or with reading. Marvin Sussaman defined disability term as term impairment or deviation from the normal which results in defective function, structure, orgamisation or development of the whole or in part of the individual's faculties. According to U.N., “a person unable to ensure by himself or herself, wholly or partly, the necessities of normal individual and/or social life, as a result of deficiency, either congenital or not, in his or her disabled. Disability thus refers to any limitations experienced by disabled persons in comparison with ableAbstract: