Trends and Differentials in Measuring Additional Cost of Bringing up a Child with Hearing Disability in India..

We are in the ‘Globalized world’. India as a developing nation with 1,210,193,422 million people (on 1st March 2011 Census) is emerging in all its socioeconomic frontiers. India as a nation has best translated its wealth into social benefits for people, especially to the persons with disabilities. Impairment of senses severely affects human development, which in turn affects the economy of a country, depending on the size of the population affected and cost incurred. India as a country, unlike US which does not translate their wealth into social benefits as per the HDI report & data (2011). Hence there is a need in India to evolve a study, on the additional cost involved in bringing up of a hearing impaired persons in India, as Government of India spends part of its GNP on welfare and social justice activities, which are also involved as the measure of quality of life based on life expectancy, literacy of the hearing impaired persons of India and increase the demographic dividend. But this research study will have its basis and will have to empirically consider the trends and differentials in measuring additional cost of bringing up a child with hearing disability in Indian population.