The country's four rehabilitation centers can serve only 1 percent of the disabled population.
Pakistan has a deaf population of 0.24 million, which is approximately 7.4% of the overall disabled population in the country.
The most recent population survey, in 2002, showed the disabled population to be the country's largest minority: 51 million, or 18 percent of all Americans.
Yes, concern, imagination and time are desperately needed attributes for our developmentally disabled population.
This involvement can take the form of volunteer work with elderly, disabled or at-risk populations.
And the indigent depressed are among the most severely disabled populations in this country.
Comparing with the large number of disabled population, there are quite few educational institutions for them.
It is estimated that women account for 51% of the overall disabled population.
The government, one article declared last week, has "sent out a clear, and unequivocal message to our disabled population.
The physically disabled population faces access barriers every day.