Re: Paki attitudes towards disabilities...
Obivous disabilities aside how to people with say learning difficulties get on at school...is there clear identification of things like dyslexia and autism say at school?...
And in terms of things like being wheelchair bound do places have ramps and disabled toliets etc?...
Re: Paki attitudes towards disabilities...
There is very rarely any accommodation for physically handicapped persons over there. If you're wheelchair bound then you're at the mercy of your caretakers because there arent ramps, wide doorways or bathrooms anywhere to be found.
If you are autistic or otherwise learning disabled then you need to have parents with lots of money and the ability to move to whatever large city has a school that can properly educate your child. Sad thing that since many of these kids can go on to college and successful careers if given the proper education in their formative years. I know this firsthand.
Re: Paki attitudes towards disabilities...
Obivous disabilities aside how to people with say learning difficulties get on at school...is there clear identification of things like dyslexia and autism say at school?... And in terms of things like being wheelchair bound do places have ramps and disabled toliets etc?...
Someone probably knows the answer here, I would just be providing anecdotal evidence by saying that most people probably don't even know what these two things are. Only ramps I saw were loading and unloading ramps in the back of buildings, and are not designed for wheel chairs. Maybe if someone is pushing the wheel chair up, a person can get up there, I doubt the person sitting in can do it.
Also, bathrooms are just about the most uncomfortable place in most buildings, dark, smelly, missing soap, with broken lotas and cramped with traditional toilets.
That's not to say help isn't available. In most places I imagine the masi or chokidar are asked to help. That is how it was at my school.
Things in Pakistan are not about giving equal chance or creating a level playing field, they are about who can get it first and hold on to it. I imagine if people with dyslexia got more time on exams like they do here, 100% of the country would be dylexic.