Disabled Students, suffering from 50% or above permanent disability are
exempted from payment of fee and compulsorily attending Orientation Course.
Such students can either opt to (i) attend all the classes or (ii) appear in two test
papers of 3 hours each after a period of 15 days from the date of registration after
thoroughly studying the OC Study Manual. In case the student opts to take the
tests, the Programme Organizing Unit (POU) may contact the Director, Board of
Studies to obtain the test papers.
The following shall be regarded as disability-
1. Physical disability.-
A. Locomotor disability (a person's inability to execute distinctive activities
associated with movement of self and objects resulting from affliction of
musculoskeletal or nervous system or both), including-
(a) "leprosy cured person" means a person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from-
(i) loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and
paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity;
(ii) manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their
hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
(iii) extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents
him/her from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression
"leprosy cured" shall construed accordingly;
(b) "cerebral palsy" means a Group of non-progressive neurological
condition affecting body movements and muscle coordination, caused by
damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring before,
during or shortly after birth;
(c) "dwarfism" means a medical or genetic condition resulting in an adult
height of 4 feet 10 inches (147 centimeters) or less;
(d) "muscular dystrophy" means a group of hereditary genetic muscle
disease that weakens the muscles that move the human body and persons
with multiple dystrophy have incorrect and missing information in their
genes, which prevents them from making the proteins they need for healthy
muscles. It is characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness,
defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue;
(e) "acid attack victims" means a person disfigured due to violent assaults
by throwing of acid or similar corrosive substance.
B. Visual impairment-
(a) "blindness" means a condition where a person has any of the following
conditions, after best correction-
(i)total absence of sight; or
(ii) visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better
eye with best possible correction; or
(iii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than10
degree.
(b) "low-vision" means a condition where a person has any of the following
conditions, namely:-
(i) visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 3/60 orupto
10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections; or
(ii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than40
degree up to 10 degree.
C. Hearing impairment-
(a) "deaf" means persons having 70 DB hearing loss in speech
frequenciesin both ears;
(b) "hard of hearing" means person having 60 DB to 70 DB hearing loss in
speech frequencies in both ears;
D. "speech and language disability" means a permanent disability arising
out of conditions such as laryngec to my or aphasia affecting one or more
components of speech and language due to organic or neurological causes.
2. Intellectual disability, a condition characterised by significant limitation both in
intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) and in adaptive
behavior which covers a range of every day, social and practical skills, including-
(a) "specific learning disabilities" means a heterogeneous group of
conditions wherein there is a deficit in processing language, spoken or
written, that may manifest itself as a difficulty to comprehend, speak, read,
write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations and includes such
conditions as perceptual disabilities, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia,
dyspraxia and developmental aphasia;
(b) "autism spectrum disorder" means a neuro-developmental condition
typically appearing in the first three years of life that significantly affects a
person's ability to communicate, understand relationships and relate to
others, and is frequently associated with unusual or stereotypical rituals or
behaviours.
3. Mental behaviour-"mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thinking,
mood, perception, orientation or memory that grossly impairs judgment,
4. Disability caused due to-
(a) chronic neurological conditions, such as-
(i) "multiple sclerosis" means an inflammatory, nervous system disease in
which the myelin sheaths around the axons of nerve cells of the brain and
spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and affecting the ability
of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to communicate with each other;
(ii) "parkinson's disease" means a progressive disease of the nervous system
marked by tremor, muscular rigidity, and slow, imprecise movement, chief
ly affecting middle-aged and elderly people associated with degeneration of
the basal ganglia of the brain and a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
(b) Blood disorder-
(i) "haemophilia" means an inheritable disease, usually affecting only male
but transmitted by women to their male children, characterised by loss
orimpairment of the normal clotting ability of blood so that a minor would
may result in fatal bleeding;
(ii) "thalassemia" means a group of inherited disorders characterised by
reduced or absent amounts of haemoglobin.
(iii) "sickle cell disease" means a haemolytic disorder characterised by
chronic anaemia, painful events, and various complications due to
associated tissue and organ damage; "haemolytic" refers to the destruction
of the cellmembrane of red blood cells resulting in the release of haemoglobin.
5. Multiple Disabilities (more than one of the above specified disabilities)
including deaf blindness which means a condition in which a person may have
combination of hearing and visual impairments causing severe communication,
developmental, and educational problems.
6. Any other category as may be notified by the Central Government.
A disabled student has to submit a certificate of suffering from disability, certified
by a physician / surgeon / oculist working in a Government hospital, as the case
may be.
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