How many disabilities are represented in RPWD Act ?
21
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act, 2016 replaced the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 and brought Indian law in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
It expanded the recognised conditions from 7 under the 1995 Act to 21 specified disabilities, including blindness, low vision, locomotor disability, intellectual disability, specific learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, mental illness, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, dwarfism, acid attack victims, Parkinson's disease, thalassaemia, haemophilia, sickle cell disease, speech and language disability, hearing impairment, leprosy-cured persons, chronic neurological conditions and multiple disabilities.
The Act also raised the reservation in government jobs to 4% and in higher education to 5% for persons with benchmark disabilities.
Hence, the answer is 21.
Similar Questions
A person with moderate mental retardation has an IQ in the following range :
UDID is ............................ .
Full form of PWD is ..................
You are a social work educator and use PowerPoints, Board and Chalk during your teaching. One day you discover that you have a student with total visual impairment in your class. How will you enable her to get the maximum learning from your class ?
(i) Read out everything from the PowerPoint and board to the whole class
(ii) Arrange separate tutorials for her and ask her not to attend regular classes of your course
(iii) Ask a fellow student to help her
(iv) Arrange separate tutorials for her in addition to regular classes
Codes :
The most critical of all the barriers to free universal education of students with disabilities is .........
The first world conference on ‘Special needs : Access and Quality’ was held in ..............
The prominent feature of six years old child whose IQ is less than 20 is being ................. .
Quinn and Ryba (2000) have suggested ............................ form of assessment for inclusive class.
For those students experiencing learning disabilities the emphasis of school should be on .............
.................... is used for identification of learning disabled children.
Important Questions from Learning Disabilities
Match List I with List II :
List - I List - II (a) ADHD (i) < 20/200 (b) Stuttering (ii) Hearing loss of 60 decibels or more (c) Visual Impairment (iii) Muscular dystrophy (d) Auditory Impairment (iv) Inattentive and Impulsive (e) Dysgraphia (v) Disruption in rhythm and fluency of speech (vi) Writing disorder (vii) Unclear speech
code :- Match List - I with List - II :
List - I List - II (a) Sensory impairment (i) I.Q. between 75 to 90 (b) Slow learners (ii) Cerebral palsy (c) Gifted children (iii) Tumors (d) Dyslexia (iv) Articulation disorders (e) Neuro - muscular disability (v) I.Q. of 130 or above (vi) Problems in reading Which of the following is correct?
I. Inclusive and integrated education are the same
II. In India, children with special needs tend to be perceived as children with disabilities
Which of the following strategies is not useful for providing lesson plans to a child who has hearing impairment?
Priyanka is suffering from "dyslexia". So, which of the following characteristic will she show ?
