Magna Carta for Persons with Disability

Section 21

The State shall ensure that marginalized persons are provided with the necessary auxiliary services that will restore their social functioning and participation in community affairs. Towards this end, the Department of Social Welfare and Development shall develop and implement programs on auxiliary social services that respond to the needs of marginalized persons with disability. The components of such a program shall be as follows: a) assistance in the acquisition of prosthetic devices and medical intervention of specialty services; b) provision of specialized training activities designed to improve functional limitations of persons with disability related to communication skills; c) development among persons with disability of a positive self-image through the provision of counseling, orientation and mobility and strengthening daily living capability; d) provision of family care services geared towards developing the capability of families to respond to the needs of the disabled members of the family; e) provision of substitute family care services and the facilities therefor for abandoned, neglected, abused and unattached persons with disability who need custodial care; f) provision of aftercare and follow-up services for the continued rehabilitation in a community-based setting of persons with disability who were released from residential care or rehabilitation centers; and g) provision of day care services for disabled children of pre-school age.