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Exploring access to government-led support for children with disabilities in Bangladesh

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  • Reshma Parvin Nuri
  • Setareh Ghahari
  • Heather Michelle Aldersey
  • Ahmed Shafiqul Huque

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While access to support for individuals with disabilities has attracted international attention, children with disabilities and their families continue to face a range of barriers that limit their timely access to the needed support, including health service. This is even worse for children with disabilities living in resource poor settings like Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which families of children with disabilities have knowledge about and access to government support for their children with disabilities in Bangladesh. We employed a cross-sectional study among 393 families of children with disabilities who sought services from the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed for their children with disabilities in Bangladesh. We used chi-square test to measure the association between categorical variables and, Mann-Whitney U-test to compare mean across different sub-groups. Overall, family members of children with disabilities have limited knowledge about and access to government support. We found a significant association between knowledge and access to government support (p

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  • Reshma Parvin Nuri & Setareh Ghahari & Heather Michelle Aldersey & Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, 2020. "Exploring access to government-led support for children with disabilities in Bangladesh," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(7), pages 1-18, July.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235439
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