Concept of Multiple Disabilities

Concept of Multiple Disabilities

Multiple Disability

Introduction of Multiple Disabilities

Welcome to a comprehensive exploration of multiple disabilities, a topic that plays a crucial role in understanding and fostering inclusivity in today's diverse world. Embracing a myriad of challenges and triumphs, multiple disabilities is a term for a person with several disabilities, associated with motor disability, mental retardation, blindness with orthopedic impairment which affects different areas of an individual's life.

    Under 'IDEA' students are labelled with multiple disability when their educational disabilities require more than the services that are available for just one of their disability.

    They may be classified as haven't multiple disability.

    These disabilities must cause significant impairment that the student not able to accommodate sufficiently in the educational setting.

Definitions

According to 'IDEA' Act 1990 

• Multiple Disability means a combination of two or more disability as define in clause of section 2 of the person with disability equal opportunity protection of full participation act 1995.

According to RPWD Act 2016

• Multiple Disability including deafness which means a condition in which a person may have combination of learning and visual impairment, causing severe communication, developmental and educational problems.

Types of Multiple Disability

 

Multiple Disability

Any combination of two or more disabilities such as

• Physically handicapped with visual impairment
• Cerebral palsy with Mental Retardation
• Hearing impairment with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Deaf Blindness

Let us assume that a child is suffering from Cerebral Palsy with Mental Retardation but the percentage of Cerebral Palsy is 35% and Mental Retardation is 50% then it is not called Multiple Disability but Associative condition.

    The child will be considered in the category of Multiple Disabled only when both the disabilities are 40% or above 40%.