Evaluation of disable friendliness of a railway transport facility in Ludhiana city of Punjab, India

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruchi Sharma ◽  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Amarjeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Specific Area ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Transport Facility ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Level Of Difficulty ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Barrier Free

Abstract: Barriers make an environment unsafe and cause a high level of difficulty to the user. But more importantly, barriers cause space to be out of reach, denying disabled people the opportunity of participation in various spheres of life. This ranges from education, economic, social, cultural, and other activities. Many studies have focused on the disabilities study but less research has been devoted to the specific area such as railway transport facilities. Thus, this study was done with the objective to ascertain the extent to which a railway transport facility in Ludhiana city of Punjab is barrier free for the disabled.: A pretested questionnaire (Access Survey and Audit Checklist) was used, designed by the Rehabilitation Council of India and Samarthya National Center for Promotion of Barrier Free Environment for Disabled Persons was modified according to our study environment. Various aspects of study domains were scored according to their importance of usage as described by disabled people interviewed before the commencement of the study.: It was found in the study that disable friendliness of the railway transport facility remains a largely unrealized goal in Ludhiana city to date. The score obtained by the railway station of Ludhiana city was 41 and its disable friendliness was graded as average. The railway transport facility was far from being satisfactory than to be called barrier free. This loss of opportunity is not only a loss for the person concerned but also a loss for society, which misses out on their contribution.: Simply put, a barrier causes exclusion and its removal is necessary for ensuring inclusion and participation of all in society.

scholarly journals Need of access facilities for persons with hearing disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Arun A Banik ◽  
Aninda Duti Banik
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Normal Population ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Barrier Free

Accessibility can be refer as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity. The concept access facilities focuses on enabling barrier free environment for persons with disabilities, or enabling access through the use of assistive technology brings overall development in accessibility and benefits to everyone. All human beings are physically disabled for some time in their lives. But those who remain healthy and without disability all their lives are very few. Thus, public buildings should be accessible and barrier-free to both able body and disabled population as well. Persons with disability find it difficult to gain access into and operate freely without assistance in many public buildings in India. This publication is an attempt to provide information an inventory of facilities required for disabled people in public places.It is an observational study covered the identification and ascertaining the functional state of access facilities available including schools etc. A total of 10 such public buildings samples were observed. The results show that major facilities required by disabled people are lacking in many public places. Some of the access facilities identified in few public buildings are in poor state of operation. However, absence of such key facilities restricts the activities of normal population as well as physical disability people. Hence, they cannot work freely in such environment and become productive as tax-paying members of the nation. Due to shortfall or perhaps total neglect in provision of such access facilities, the movement, competence and talents are being restricted for the disabled population. Hence, equal opportunity and non-discrimination brings good equation for every citizen in this developing country constitute a barrier free environment for the development of their abilities. At last, the society at large is deprived of the abilities and talents in people with disabilities.

scholarly journals AUTOMATED INTELLIGENT RELAY COUPLED DOOR CONTROL SYSTEM USING ANDROID MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

2015 ◽  
pp. 192-195
Author(s):  
A.RAJESH KUMAR ◽  
C. DINESH ◽  
R. ARAVIND ◽  
SRIKRISHNA. C ◽  
PL. NAGARTHINAM
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Door Lock ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

The purpose of this project is to increase the knowledge of technology and services of smart homes for disabled people. There is a clear need for such new knowledge since the number of disabled people is significant. Indeed, new technologies and services of smart homes have the potential to increase effectiveness and efficiency of caring disabled. With right solutions there is a great potential to increase disabled persons' quality of life. The need for the development of such technologies and services increases due to the disabled individuals' desire to remain independent in their own homes, the increasing costs of health care, and the aging of the population. This article discusses the concept of secured door lock/unlock system for the differently able. The juxtaposition of safety vs. privacy can be alleviated with this technology. Moreover, as there is need to assist disabled to protect them from various forms of abuse, and prevent immoderation of pleasure giving activities.

To the question about problems in the fi eld of vocational rehabilitation of the disabled

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Y. A. Kulikova ◽  
A. V. Kornienko ◽  
G. V. Jukevich
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
The State ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article deals with issues related to the problem of vocational rehabilitation of disabled people. The competence of the Russian Federation in the fi eld of rehabilitation of disabled persons in the person of its Federal authorities and management, subjects of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies is specifi ed. The content of such concepts as "services for professional rehabilitation of disabled people" in accordance with the state standard GOST R 53873-2010 Rehabilitation of disabled people is disclosed. Professional rehabilitation services for the disabled; "professional rehabilitation program" and "options for professional rehabilitation". Despite the fact that professional rehabilitation and adaptation in the workplace is an integral part of the state policy in the fi eld of social protection of persons with disabilities, there are many unresolved problems and diffi culties in this area.

scholarly journals Design and Fabrication of Automated Wheelchair

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Mohammed Iqbal Khatib ◽  
Shahin Shaikh ◽  
Syed Zubair Azeem ◽  
Mohd Taqi Uddin ◽  
Sohail Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Front Wheel ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Motor Speed ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
Manual Wheelchair ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
User Friendly

Wheelchairs are used by people to whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury or disability. Driving a manual wheelchair or crutches is a difficult task and past invented automatic wheelchair are not available in present market that can be bought and used for physically disable persons. The purpose of this research work is to propose of an automated wheelchair system which facilitates the users. The proposed wheelchair has been implemented with design, simulation and construction of the whole body. Automated Wheel Chair assists disabled people to become more mobile and independent. The main objective of this project is to design and fabricate a cheap, intuitive and practical automated wheelchair. Many of the disabled persons uses hand powered wheelchair who do not have the physical strength or coordination to propel themselves on the tricycle with their arms and hands. This automated wheelchair has the potential to deliver increased freedom to a considerable consumer base. The proposed system presents a user friendly tricycle which can be easily assembled to the wheelchair at any time. It has front wheel propelled mechanism with hub motor installed inside the wheel. The controller is the brain of the automated wheelchair, controlling the motor speed, start, stop. As it is connected to all other electronic parts such as battery, motor, and the throttle, display (battery indicator). The disabled people who use a normal wheelchair for mobility and navigation requires an another person for support and to move around. Mobility of disabled people is concerned social issue nowadays. Here comes the need of an automated wheelchair, which adds on power to the manual wheelchair with its user friendly tricycle.

scholarly journals Szerettem volna ugyan tanulni, de sosem mertem belevágni a nehézségek miatt

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dóra Hangya
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
School System ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Disabled Adults

Ma már nem kérdés, hogy a sokszínűséggel, a multikulturalitással foglalkozni kell, a kérdés inkább az, hogy például egy felnőttképzési intézmény vagy egy munkahelyi közösség hogyan tudja aktívan és stratégiai céllal kezelni a sokszínűséget, milyen intézkedésekkel tud értékteremtő puzzle-ként beépülni a cég, a közösség identitásába.Jelenleg az Új Nemzeti Kiválóság Program 2017/2018. évi pályázata keretében a ”Semmit rólatok, nélkületek” Fogyatékossággal élő személyek iskolarendszeren kívüli felnőttképzéshez való egyenlő esélyű hozzáférésének vizsgálata” c. kutatásban vizsgálom a fogyatékossággal élő felnőttek iskolarendszeren kívüli felnőttképzéshez történő egyenlő esélyű hozzáférésének tapasztalatait.A tanulmányomban bemutatott kutatásaim hiánypótló jellegűek. A kutatások támpontokat, útmutatót kívánnak nyújtani ahhoz, hogy az iskolarendszeren kívüli felnőttképzési intézményrendszer hatékonyabban tudja segíteni a fogyatékossággal élő személyek munkaerő-piaci (re)integrációját, társadalmi inklúzióját. A bemutatott kutatások hozzájárulhatnak egy olyan inkluzív felnőttképzési rendszer létrejöttéhez, mely hatékonyabban tudja segíteni a fogyatékossággal élő személyek munkaerő-piaci elhelyezkedését és hozzájárul a fogyatékossággal élő felnőttek egyéni igényen alapuló szükségleteinek megismeréséhez, mely hosszútávon eredményesebbé teheti a foglalkozási rehabilitáció oktatási-képzési célú tevékenységrendszerét. AbstractI wanted to study but because of the difficulties around, I never dared to start Today, it is out of question that diversity and multi-culture must be dealt with; the question is how an adult education institution or a workplace community can manage diversity actively and with a strategic view, what are the measures to be taken in order to include diversity as a value creating piece of puzzle into the identity of a firm or a community.  I am examining the experiences in the equal access of disabled adults to the adult education possibilities outside the school system in a research titled ‘”Nothing about you without you” Survey of the equal access of disabled persons to the adult education possibilities outside the school system’ and implemented within the 2017/18 call of the New Generation National Excellence Program.My researches presented in this study are stop-gap researches. They strive to provide starting points or a guide so that the adult education institutional system existing outside the traditional school system be able to support the labour market (re)integration and the social inclusion of the disabled people more effectively. The researches presented may contribute to the evolution of an inclusive adult education system that can more effectively help disabled people enter the labour market and can conduce to the exploration of the personal needs of the disabled adults, which may make the educational-training activity system of employment rehabilitation more successful in the long run. ________________________________________________________________________

scholarly journals Built-in metro system concourse in historical buildings: the experience of Leningrad and Prague, modern problems and technologies in the context of a barrier-free environment establishment

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Strugach ◽  
Andrey Trifonov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Metro Station ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Metro System ◽  
Barrier Free

Currently, the barrier-free environment establishment in transport (including in the metro system) is one of the most urgent tasks. When retrofitting existing metro stations for access by disabled people and other people with limited mobility in a dense urban development of the historical center, it will inevitably arise the need to build additional concourse and related premises in historical buildings and cultural heritage sites. For St. Petersburg, this topic is especially important, given the specific structure of the city’s historical center and the location peculiarities of central metro stations. This article examines and briefly analyzes the building metro concourse experience in historical buildings and cultural heritage sites in Leningrad (on the example of the St. Petersburg metro stations «Mayakovskva», «Nevsky Prospekt» / «Gostiny Dvor») and Prague (on the example of the Prague metro stations «I.P. Pavlova» and «Karlovo namesti»). The investigated Prague projects experience is the most relevant in relation to the modern providing a barrier-free environment challenges that St. Petersburg metro faced. The article also provides a cementing overview (for stabilizing the preserved object’s soil and foundations, including Jet Grouting) and their use peculiarities in the existing historical development. One of the options proposed by the authors to provide access for disabled people and other people with limited mobility to the Ploschad Vosstaniya metro station is considered. This option was prepared in the course of pre-design studies on organizing access for disabled people and other people with limited mobility to 11 Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line stations of the St. Petersburg metro in 2019–2020.

Conditions for compliance with the requirements for ensuring the accessibility of transport facilities of Russian Railways through interim solutions and the adoption of compensatory measures to serve people with limited mobility, including people with disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-352
Author(s):  
Timofey M. SHMANEV ◽  
◽  
Victoria I. A ULYANITSKAY ◽  
Marina S. PUKHOVA ◽  
Pavel S. PANOV ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Practical Importance ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Compensatory Programs ◽  
Barrier Free

Objective: Formation of an effective mechanism for the creation or gradual redistribution of resources to ensure a universal barrier-free environment not only among disabled people (of all categories), but among representatives of people with limited mobility (PLM), through interim solutions and the adoption of compensatory programs (measures). Based on finding the optimal balance of costs and benefits, in cases of lack of technical or material capabilities associated with improving the development or design of an accessible environment. Methods: The main tools of analysis and management are used: Pareto diagram, cause-effect diagram (Ishikawa), goal setting, structuring, dynamic changes, etc. Results: A variant of the mechanism for the implementation of the step-by-step creation of a universal barrier- free environment is presented not only among disabled people (of all categories), but among PLM. It has been established that if the existing infrastructure facilities of the passenger complex, before their reconstruction or overhaul, cannot be fully adapted to the needs of disabled people, then the introduction of a comprehensive program (roadmap), compensating measures, interim solutions allows minimizing or eliminating the company’s costs. Practical importance: On the example of the obtained algorithm (sequence) of organizing the process to ensure the accessibility of the environment of the passenger complex of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, the principle of phased implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Russian Railways, which is universal, is shown. Formalized solutions should help improve the quality of service, reduce costs and increase customer focus on the Russian Railways network.

THE PERSPECTIVES OF PHYSIOTHERAPY AND REHABILITATION STUDENTS ON DISABLED INDIVIDUALS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE DISABLED

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (18) ◽  
pp. 175-181
Author(s):  
Ayşe ÜNAL
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Mean

The aim of this study was to determine the perspectives of the students of the physiotherapy and rehabilitation department towards the disabled and their attitudes towards the education of the disabled. Sixty-eight volunteer students (50 females, 18 males) studying at Pamukkale University School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation and taking the Psychosocial Rehabilitation course in the Spring Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic Year participated in the study. The Attitude Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDPS) was used to evaluate the positive and negative attitudes of the students towards the disabled individuals, and the Attitude Scale for the Training of Individuals with Disabilities (ASTID) was used to determine their views on the education of the disabled individuals. Evaluations were made at the beginning and end of the relevant semester. The mean age of the students was 19.44±1.07 years. In the first evaluation, the mean of ATDPS was 50.75±13.92 and the total score of ASTID was 51.04±18.42 points. At the last evaluation, the ATDPS score increased to 78.36±13.77 and the ASTID total score to 93.13±7.48 (p=0.0001). Providing students with basic information about various disability groups and their rehabilitation will increase the level of awareness towards people with disabilities. It is important to develop positive attitudes towards the disabled throughout society in order for the disabled to feel themselves as a part of social life and to increase their participation in social life. It will contribute to the increase of the social awareness of the organizations to be organized regarding the education of the disabled and disabled people. Organizations to be held regarding disabled people and the education of the disabled will contribute to the increase of social awareness.

‘Until Disabled People Get Consulted …’: The Role of Occupational Therapy in Meeting Housing Needs

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Nocon ◽  
Nicholas Pleace
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

This article reports oh a study of the housing needs of people with disabilities (aged 16 to 65) in Shropshire. The study included interviews with disabled people and with frontline and managerial staff in several agencies, a survey of disabled people, and the analysis of quantitative data. The findings highlight the high level of need for adaptations and more appropriate housing for disabled people; the importance of greater user involvement in the way needs are identified and services provided; the need for reform of the Disabled Facilities Grant system; and the need for an integrated inter-agency approach to meeting disabled people's housing needs.

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