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Akbar Khan was born on 16 August 1962 [6] in a Muslim family to Kistoor Khan, a farmer and Rahmat Begum, a housewife, at Bangasar, located in the Indian state of Rajasthan with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life, and occurs in 2 to 3 per 100,000 newborns of the population. [7]
Through DRZYA, she scouts for talent among specially abled, trains them and provides them a platform to perform and earn a livelihood. She is also the Founder-Trustee of Drzyashakti Trust, an NGO for the services of disabled people. In the past, she has been a film and TV actress, anchor and CAG Senior Audit Officer (Comptroller and Auditor ...
Many terms that some people view as harmful are not viewed as hurtful by others, and even where some people are hurt by certain terms, others may be hurt by the replacement of such terms with what they consider to be euphemisms (e.g., "differently abled" or "special needs"). Some people believe that terms should be avoided if they might hurt ...
Madhavi's success with sports in her forties led her to start a movement called "Yes We Too Can", to promote sports for people with disabilities. In an interview, she said, "Team sports, as opposed to individual sports, helps the differently-abled people to fit in, besides assisting the physical rehabilitation process. Often, the differently ...
The World report on disability indicates that half of all disabled people cannot afford health care, compared to a third of abled people. [107] In countries without public services for adults with disabilities, their families may be impoverished. [108]
Christian Cooper, author of "Better Living Through Birding" and host of Disney+'s "Extraordinary Birder," joins the L.A. Times Book Club Aug. 16.
Pushpa pursued her career as an exam scribe in 2007 and it was one of her friends who motivated her to write exams for differently abled people. [4] In 2007, she responded to the request of few NGOs to write exams for blind people. [5]
Iyer was born on 18 February 1989 in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu [15] to B. Krishnan and Hema Krishnan. [16] [17] She grew up in Bikaner, Rajasthan, where her father worked as an engineer at the Water Works Department. [17]