LAHORE : Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pakistan Association for Difficulties in Learning (PADIL) Ashba Kamran has demanded allocation of funds for the persons with Learning Disabilities (LDs) in the budget for the fiscal year 2013-14. She said it is an irony that the persons with LDs are clubbed with physically disabled persons. Not only this, she added, the federal government has never carried out a separate census for the persons with LDs.
She said the blithe of ignorance being faced by the slow learners or the persons with LDs is ending up on high turnout of school dropouts. Resultantly, the literacy rate in Pakistan is abysmally low and discouraging.