Across the globe, 3rd of December marks the honoring of “ the International Day of people with Disabilities ” (IDPD) yearly.
The rationale grounding for the observance is to develop an apprehension of the barriers these individuals with disabilities are coming across.
In addition, advocating for their nobility, exceptional subjects, welfare, safeguarding and deeming them co-equal to the able-bodied members of the social-unit, entails in the list of motives.
On an yearly basis, the theme for the day varries. For the ongoing year 2K20 the decided theme is , “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World”.
Generally the word “Disability” means a flaw in the brain function or the physical health of body evolving restrictions in one’s activities, senses and mobility.
Handicapped, functional limitations, impaired, disabled are units of the English language that can be used interchangeably (although having slight variations).
In every-day life, espying a number of physically disabled individuals is a beyond any doubt fact.
The individual can be a victim of Madelung’s deformity, a Kyphotic back with a hobbling gait pattern, a visually impaired body carrying a white cane, a deaf-mute conveying one’s words via sign language, those with any one or more of the limbs feeble etc.
Further more a disabled person needs not to be necessarily physically frail, a physically sound but mentally defected body too falls into this category.
By virtue of their limitation matured in brain health, a mentally impaired cannot be involved in doing chores or other fulfillment of duties assigned.
“Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life”. (Emma Thompson)
For a physically handicapped soul (usually the bodies with limb impairment), the lugging of an assistive agent with them is not their weakness neither is contributing as an imperfection factor hence it is their support, their additional strength upon which they are empowered to a great extent to be competent to the fit as a fiddle peers of the society.
Discoursing on the differing brackets of disabled figures, those congenitally impaired are blessed with assorted substitute adroitness that aids in deadening the necessity of a missing capacity.
The then acquired disability body too can continue with the tasks once performed, can still pursue one’s dreams but now in tandem with considerable effort.
Being linked up with the field of Physiotherapy ergo having a great admiration for the discipline.
Thus having to review and discuss the coupled conditions with the physically handicapped persons (specifically those with limbs weaknesses) looks unavoidable.
A grad of the aforementioned field, plays a vital role in the restoration of the deteriorated state of physical health. They work one’s fingers to the bone with an objective of mobilizing an affectee (affectee can be a congenitally disabled or later acquired disability individual who possess the potential to be rehabilitated).
A Physiotherapist targets to train a bed-ridden patient to get transferred into a wheelchair bound environment, then progressively a wheelchair bound to a cane user and upskill the victim to abstain from dependency and lead an independent life.
This is usually worked-out by coaching them to perform every activity in a new & refashioned manner, tailoring an exercise plan and the use of various modalities.
At long last, I’ll say that as members of a community, as living beings on the terra firma of Earth, these humans who are differently-able deserves to be evenly cherished as able-bodied beings and most significantly there is a dire need of looking up to these figures.
And to all differently-able bodies, don’t be a victim of self-pity i.e feeling sorry for oneself, as it would do nothing good hence only lock up and envelope you in a four walled space.
You are unique beings, you are strengthened with distinctive traits and YES! you are proficient members of the society.