Abstract:

Despite everything done to assist each physically or mentally disabled person achieve his or her maximum potential in life, these efforts will not succeed until the obstacles to this goal erected by human society have been removed: the physical barriers created in public buildings, housing, transportation, houses of worship, centers of social life and other community facilities; and the social barriers evolved and accepted against those who vary more than a certain degree from what we have been conditioned to regard as normal. More people are forced into limited lives and made to suffer by these manmade obstacles than by any specific physical or mental disability. The purpose of the report is to mobilize increased interest in the problems of disability, their prevention and the rehabilitation of disabled persons.