Intellectual disability Current Affairs, GK & News

2019 edition of World Iodine Deficiency Day (WIDD)

The World Iodine Deficiency Day (WIDD) is observed every year on 21st of October  to raise awareness of iodine deficiency and its devastating effects on brain development. Iodine is an essential micronutrient required for normal thyroid function, growth, and development. Its deficiency is a major cause of preventable mental retardation. In its most severe forms, ..

Topics: Branches of biology • Chemistry • Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome • Intellectual disability • Iodine • Iodine deficiency • Iodine in biology • Iodised salt • Micronutrient • Physical sciences • Thyroid • Thyroid disease

National Trust

The National Trust is a statutory body of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, set up under the “National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities” Act.  The National Trust works towards providing opportunities for capacity development of Persons with Disability and their ..

Topics: Disability • Health • Human development • Intellectual disability • Malini Chib • Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment • Psychiatry • Spastic Society of Gurgaon

2018 National Conference on Down Syndrome organised Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

The ‘2018 National Conference on Down Syndrome’ was organised by the National Trust under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in New Delhi on March 25. A book entitled “Twilights Children” based on the lives of person suffering from Down Syndrome was released on the occasion. The conference brought intellectuals from all walks of life ..

Topics: Branches of biology • Chromosomes • Down syndrome • Intellectual disability • RTT • Syndromes • Syndromes affecting the heart