Locomotor Disabled

Disability and issues related to the differently-abled are gaining importance the world over. The declaration of inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society, Biwako Millennium Framework, has awakened the nations in general and individuals in particular to look into the needs of the disabled. This book has adopted a holistic and exhaustive approach for studying the psychosocial pattern among locomotor disabled adolescents. Adolescence being a transitional phase lays the foundation to the life time development of personality, adjustment pattern and self-concept. Any disability has an impeding impact during this phase. This book is well written with an in-depth understanding of the psychology of the youth and the disabled. The book outlines importance of healthy self-concept, good adjustment pattern and personality among the locomotor disabled. The book provides an illuminating guidance for development of self worth among the locomotor disabled and concludes with suggestions for further research in this area. This book will be of immense use to experts in the Disability area especially in India, to know the psychosocial pattern among the locomotor disabled and non-disabled adolescents. This book will be treated as a good source book on Disability. The students, teachers, researchers, programme managers, non-governmental organization, executives, policy makers and academicians in general working in the fields of Disability, human development and family studies, psychology and sociology will be professionally enriched by reading this book. Written in simple and lucid language, this book will be of great interest to the layman intersted in the psychology of the differently-abled.