Question: What are disabled children called in Ghana

Context articles: Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000
Disability in Russia
Every Disabled Child Matters
Spirit children
Eloísa García Etchegoyhen
Mangala Jyothi Integrated school
Erzsébet Szekeres
Contact a Family
Leaena Tambyah
Disability in Ghana

The Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 is a 2000 United Kingdom Act of Parliament in the relationship between Carers and disabled children.
Many disabled face poor provision of facilities, and disabled children are commonly institutionalized as disability is considered shameful and must be hidden.
Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) is a political campaign based in England with the aim of improving rights for disabled children and their families.
 The stated campaign objectives focus on issues such as poverty, education, access to government services and inclusion.
 The campaign was launched in September 2006.
A spirit child in Ghana is a disabled child who are believed to possess magical powers to cause misfortune.
 Disability in Ghana is greatly stigmatised and the only way considered acceptable to deal with the problem is to kill them via advice by a witchdoctor.
Eloísa García Etchegoyhen (1921-1996) was a pioneering Uruguayan educator and disability rights activist.
 She not only created the first educational facilities in Uruguay to teach those with disabilities, but she developed job placement programs and parent support groups to help children integrate into the larger society.
 She spearheaded training for teachers and psychologists leading to the creation of research programs into the cause of mental retardation and led a public awareness campaign to encourage acceptance of the disabled by their families and communities.
 She began the first school for students with multiple disabilities and began the first pre-school for early assessment and intervention for disabled children in Uruguay.
 She brought the Special Olympics to Uruguay and worked throughout Latin America and the Caribbean for inclusive policies for disabled citizens.
SDM Mangala Jyothi Integrated School (MJIS), Vamanjoor, is an Integrated School and Society for the Welfare of the Disabled has provided educational activities for disabled children with normal children with the concept of Integrated Education since 1981.
 Founded by the late Mohini Appaji Nayak, this institution is now operated by the Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Society, of Ujire.
 Poojya Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade is the President of the Institution.
 An Industrial Training Centre also will run with the concept of Inclusive Education; disabled Students will be given industrial training with normal students.
Erzsébet Szekeres is a Hungarian disability rights activist and social entrepreneur.
 She has worked to minister to the disabled of Hungary by "training, employing, and housing disabled adults."
 Beginning in the early 1980s, Szekeres began to strive toward greater opportunities for people with disabilities.
 Her own son, Tibor, had microcephalus and "severe mental retardation."
 Once Szekeres realized Tibor's chances of survival to adulthood were good, she determined to work toward providing her son and others with disabilities a fulfilling and productive adulthood.
 Such opportunities for people with disabilities were very rare; according to the Ashoka Innovators for the Public website, "In Hungary, the lack of integration of disabled people into society is extreme.
 Disabled people...{can not} gain access to public buildings or public transportation...the state solution is institutionalization for life."
 This state of affairs did not satisfy Szekeres.
 She began to connect with other parents of disabled children and established an "informal cooperative business running out of her basement."
 However, such business endeavors were not recognized legally until 1986, when Szekeres founded Összefogás Ipari SzÖvetkezet, or in English, the Alliance Industrial Union.
 Although progress was slow for a few years, in 1989 the Ministry of Welfare in Hungary awarded substantial funds to the Alliance.
 This helped to speed up the development of housing as well as facilities and supplies that would enable those with disabilities to earn money.
 Szekeres has worked to create an environment in which those with disabilities, including her son Tibor, could work and live as unimpeded by their handicaps as possible.
 According to Szekeres, "...In institutions, you can't leave, you can't be in couples.
 Here you have a lot of freedom.
 Here you are challenged to become part of a community."
 Szekeris was admitted as an Ashoka fellow in 1997 for her entrepreneurial approach to those with disabilities.
Contact a Family is a UK-based registered charity for families with disabled children offering support, advice and information regardless of the child's medical condition or situation.
 As well as supporting families the charity supports those who assist the families, including medical and educational professionals, local government workers and health workers.
 The charity also campaigns on behalf of disabled children's families in the UK.
Leaena Tambyah (born 1937) is a special education advocate who founded Singapore's first school for children with multiple disabilities.
 The school was originally called the Handicapped Children's Playgroup, but went on to become the AWWA School.
 Tambyah also founded a programme called TEACH ME (Therapy and Educational Assistance for Children in Mainstream Education) to try to bring disabled children into mainstream schools, and to provide mobile therapy services to children whose families could not afford to bring them to a hospital.
Disability in Ghana has a massive amount of stigma, children or people who are born disabled or deformed are assumed to be possessed by evil spirits.