A Retrospective Study on the Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Profile of Children with Developmental Disabitity

Abstract

The present study examines the prevalence and socio demographic profile of children with developmental disability from secondary data sources. The data source consists of the open data available in the government website. The prevalence of Developmental disability were calculated on the five major different categories of DD, on the basis of different castes and different religions, taking five years of statistics of Odisha and Sundargarh district. The results revealed that among the castes categories, OBC has highest prevalence rate of developmental disability across Odisha in which Cerebral Palsy has the highest prevalence among five different categories of DD, of which Puri district is highly prone to developmental disability. Sundargarh Statistics revealed that ST category is highly affected by learning disability. This data also illustrate decreasing statistics of DD from 2011-12 to 2015-16.