Living with Special Needs - Solutions

Dear Friends,

Based on your inputs on What is needed to improve life for individuals with Special Needs in India, below is a Summary of Key Solutions.

If you have anything additional, please post it as a comment to this post.

We will now compile a whitepaper for submission to PMO, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Health for actions.

Thanks again for coming together to review this subject and your valuable inputs. I am confident our collective efforts will make a difference.

Rajendra Pratap Gupta

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Living with Special Needs in India – Solutions

1. Government should clear the definition of needs of people with special needs and then draft regulations around that
2. People should change their perspective on how they look at people with special needs
3. Make it compulsory for all schools to treat the children with special needs at par with normal child
4. Teaching children with special needs should be promoted as a lucrative career option, so that there is less gap in demand and supply of such services
5. Buses/trains/metros should be designed with low ramps to make it easy for people with special needs to get in
6. A person with a disability should be treated at par with a normal person when it comes to jobs in public or private sector
7. Tax/duties on imported assistance devices should be reduced
8. More initiatives should be taken in the field of research and development of assistance devices for people with special needs
9. Foot paths should be designed keeping people with special needs in mind
10. All the schools, colleges, Government buildings with more than 2 floors should have lifts
11. Separate toilets should be made for people with special needs
12. Shops, ATMs should have ramps to make them accessible for people with special needs
13. Treatment of any special need child is extremely expensive and it is lifelong expense. Such problems should be handled free in govt. hospitals.
14. Braille should also be used in competitive exams
15. Hearing aids and other assistance devices should be sold at subsidised rates
16. Government should develop fully equipped day care exclusively for special children for working parents of special children
17. Government may introduce care-giver training for specially meant for dealing with special children
18. Special scholarships for special need people (at school level and also at college level)
19. It should be made mandatory for insurance companies to have cover plans for differently abled people
20. Corporates should be encouraged to carry out initiatives for these special needs people under CSR