Enabling The Disabled Through Educational Amenities: A Sociological Analysis On Maheshwari School For Blind

Abstract

Education is the foundation of the entire structure of the nation as it is not concerned with any group or class, but has a direct influence on the entire population of the country. Education is an important factor in creating social order and is founded on certain essential values. Education of exceptional children is a challenging field. A disability is any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being, resulting from any impairment. Disability comes in many forms like hearing, visual, orthopedic, mental and learning. Meaning and Definition: Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for ―No light perception‖. Blindness is frequently used to describe, severe visual impairment with residual vision. Those described as having only light perception have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark and the general direction of a light source. Childhood blindness refers to a group of diseases and conditions occurring in childhood or early adolescence, which if left untreated results in blindness or visual impairment, that are likely to be untreatable later.