Disability: Causes, consequences and rehabilitative measures in Kashmir: a study of Srinagar District Dr. Hussain Manzoor*, Bhat Shoaib Ahmad**, Lone Irshad Ahmad*** *Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Sociology, University of Kashmir **Research Scholar, Deptt. of Sociology, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra ***Research Scholar, Deptt. of Sociology, Singhania University, Rajasthan Online published on 21 November, 2013. Abstract Disability is a state of impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. The study is an endeavor to discuss the cause, consequences and rehabilitative measures of disable persons with special reference to Srinagar district of Kashmir. Disability is the outcome of a mutilation that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability may be present from birth, or take place during a person's life span. Person of disability feels loneliness: boundless into four walls, economically dependent and medically not treated, unable to work. They consider themselves alienated from the main stream of society, socially, their contact becomes limited and psychologically the depression occurs among them. Finally, rehabilitative measures should provide in the name of disabled persons of all sections of society especially weaker sections, destitute and needy people. The present study also makes an attempt to provide some suggestive measures to overcome or surmount the problem of disability and also focuses on the rehabilitative measures of disable persons. Top Keywords Disability, mutilation, society, causes, consequences, rehabilitative, depression, destitute, alienated. Top |