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A. Whether Siamese twins will be considered as disabled?
B. What about the drug addicts, will they also be treated as mentally
disabled?
C. Why one eyed persons have not been treated as disabled In Seeing?
D. Deaf & Dumb should be one category?
E. What about the diseases like Alzhemer , Dementia, Thelesimea
under are these disabilities and if yea where should they be recorded?
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A. Whether Siamese twins will be considered as disabled?
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Siamese twins or persons with one body and two heads will be treated as disabled
in movement. In case, they also suffer from any other disability, they will be considered
having multiple disability and appropriate codes will be recorded.
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B. What about the drug addicts, will they also be treated
as mentally disabled?
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Drug addicts as such will not be treated as Mentally disabled unless they show sign
of being mentally unstable. Respondent would know the best.
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C. Why one eyed persons have not been treated as disabled
In Seeing?
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Only 30% vision is blocked if one eye is lost. This does not qualify a person to
be considered as disabled In Seeing
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D. Deaf & Dumb should be one category?
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Generally it is believed that deaf persons also can not speak. However, people acquire
hearing disability on account of accidents and /or old age. Therefore, Disability
In Speech and Disability In hearing have been categorized as separate disabilities
for the census purpose. If one person is both deaf and dumb, she/ he will be considered
to be having multiple disability and code 8 will be recorded in Q 9(b). Care may
be taken to record appropriate codes in Q. 9(c) for persons with multiple disabilities.
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E.What about the diseases like Alzhemer , Dementia, Thelesimea
under are these disabilities and if yea where should they be recorded?
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The first two would be considered under Mental Illness.
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