title: Disability in Malaysia
text: # Disability in Malaysia
  
  Disability in Malaysia refers to the people with disability in Malaysia (Malay: Orang Kurang Upaya or OKU). As of 2007, there are 197,519 people in Malaysia with various category of disability. The country is a state party to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, having signed on 8 April 2008 and ratified the treaty on 19 July 2010.
  
  ## Categories
  
  The Department of Social Welfare Malaysia lists disabilities into seven categories, which are hearing, visual, speaking, physical, learning, mental and multiple disabilities.
  
  ## Law
  
  In 2008, the Parliament of Malaysia passed the Persons with Disabilities Act (PWDA) to ensure access for disabled people to public facilities, transportation, recreation, leisure and sport services.
  
  ## National-level organisations
  
  * Alzheimer's Disease Foundation of Malaysia
  * Kiwanis Disability Information and Support Centre
  * Malaysia Information Network for the Disabled
  * Malaysian Association for the Blind
  * Malaysian Braille Press
  * Malaysian Federation of the Deaf
  * Malaysian Confederation of the Disabled
  * Malaysian Mental Health Association
  * Malaysian Mentalink Foundation
  * Malaysian Parkinson's Disease Association
  * Malaysian Spinal Injury Association
  * National Council for the Blind, Malaysia
  