Volume 8 Issue 1 January, 2018
❌ Disabilities are always physical and visible
✅ Disabilities are of many types like psychiatric illness and many are invisible
❌ Individuals with learning disability are not intelligent
✅ Majority have average or above average intelligence
❌ Wheelchairs are only for paraplegics
✅ Mobility aids are used for wide range of conditions from fatigue to paraplegia
❌ Employing a person with disability can be costly for the employer
✅ Not really, majority do not require costly aids
❌ A successful differently-abled person is considered to be a superhuman and they want to be
✅ A disabled person just want to be treated like a normal individual
Dr. Priyanka Mantagi, Intern. MVJMC & RH, Hoskote, Bengaluru