Disability in Seychelles

As of 1996, there were 1,496 people with varying degree of disability in Seychelles.^[1]

Seychelles signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007 and ratified it on 2 October 2009. It went into effect on 1 November 2009.^[2]

In 1981, there were 2,908 people with disability after the country made a survey to identify the number of people with such characters. And in 1991, there were 732 people.^[1]

Disability in Seychelles is classified into several categories, which are physical, mental or intellectual impairments and sensory impairments category, which include hearing, speech and vision.^[1]

The Association for People with Hearing Impairment (APHI) was founded in 2005 to train teachers of the deaf and to promote public awareness of Seychelles Sign Language.^[3]

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