Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A (2024)

Coming to the educational status of the disabled, the scenario in MP is much better than the other states of India. The percentage of literates to total disabled population is 52.54% whereas the literacy rate of the population of Madhya Pradesh is 70.63%. From the present study, total number of disabled students were 1552, out of which 831 (53.54%) are boys and 721 (46.46%) are girls. Visual impairment is the most common type of disability; there were 559 visually impaired children which occupied 36.01 percent of the total population. Mentally retarded children constitute the second highest population with 508 (32.73%) children. At the same time, there were 111 (7.15%) hearing impaired children, 90 (5.8%) children are orthopedically handicapped, 79 (5.09%) children have speech problem and 24 (1.55%) children are having cerebral palsy, 157 (10.12%) are multiple disabled and 24 (1.55%) are learning disabled respectively.