DISCRIMINATION AND STIGMATIZATION OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED STUDENT IN A GENERAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN PAKISTAN

This study explores the educational environment of students with physical disability. It addresses the experiences of discrimination and stigmatization with physically disable students and the impact of discrimination and stigmatization on their self perception. Purposive sampling was applied as a sampling technique in this research for collecting information from physical disable students. Indepth interviews were administrated to collect the relevant information from the respondents. The result indicates most of students with mobility impairments seemed positive towards life and admitted that general education had promoted their self confidence.