Disabled children

The cost of raising a child with special needs. Infographics: TBS
Panorama

What does it take to parent a child with disabilities?

A 2021 survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics found that out of 47.42 lakh people with disabilities in the country, 17.9% are children aged 0 to 9 years. Parents not only experience societal...

Nayan Sayed Jibon. Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

Persons with disability: They don’t need our ‘ahare!’, the system does

17-year-old Nupur, a 10th grader from Nilkamal Union, Char Fasson, Bhola, regularly goes to the computer training centre and is trained by skilled trainers. Out-of-school rates are higher among children with multiple disabilities and disparities become even more significant when the severity of the disability is taken into account. Photo: © UNICEF/ UN0547488/Mawa
World+Biz

Nearly 240 million children around the world have disabilities: Unicef report

Photo: Collected
Education

Fund crisis, closure constant worries for disabled children’s schools