Shivani Gupta

Maastricht University | UM · CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care

Centered around the everyday lives of persons with disabilities living in rural India, the thesis explores the autonomy they have in their everyday lives. Qualitative research on the grassroots of persons with disabilities suggests that both internal factors such as their self-esteem, education level, age, gender, and external factors such as socia...

Persons with disabilities in rural India do not have the opportunity to lead a self-determined life and be included in their community as required by the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. To investigate their experience of living everyday life and the amount of agency they are able to exercise, in-depth interviews were undertak...

Objective • To develop a tool for local fieldworkers to assess the physical home environment of persons with disabilities in rural low resourced setting in relation to the different mobility devices people may use. Research methods • Development of draft tool based on existing literature of mobility device listing and physical accessibility in rura...

To what extent does the NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK for support services of countries in Asia operationalise the CRPD?

Background and aim: India has had a wheelchair-delivery system in place for several years but its impact on users is inadequate. Therefore, this research reviews the system to examine how the right to personal mobility can be served better. Method: this paper undertakes a narrative review of the existing government-aided wheelchair provision sys...

Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) requires countries to harmonise their legislative frameworks with it. This paper investigates the national legislative frameworks of four Asian countries to see the extent to which they provide support services in accordance with Article 19 of the U...

Purpose: This is a position paper describing the elements of an international framework for assistive technology provision that could guide the development of policies, systems and service delivery procedures across the world. It describes general requirements, quality criteria and possible approaches that may help to enhance the accessibility of a...