Wednesday 13 August 2014

Disability

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Disability is the aftereffect of an crime that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some aggregate of these. A affliction may be present from birth, or action during a person's lifetime.
Disabilities is an awning term, accoutrement impairments, action limitations, and accord restrictions. An crime is a botheration in physique action or structure; an action limitation is a adversity encountered by an alone in active a assignment or action; while a accord brake is a botheration accomplished by an alone in captivation in activity situations. Thus, affliction is a circuitous phenomenon, absorption an alternation amid appearance of a person’s physique and appearance of the association in which he or she lives.[1]
An alone may aswell authorize as disabled if they accept had an crime in the accomplished or is apparent as disabled based on a claimed or accumulation accepted or norm. Such impairments may cover physical, sensory, and cerebral or adorning disabilities. Brainy disorders (also accepted as psychiatric or psychosocial disability) and assorted types of abiding ache may aswell authorize as disabilities.
Some advocates article to anecdotic assertive altitude (notably deafness and autism) as "disabilities", arguing that it is added adapted to accede them adorning differences that accept been unfairly stigmatized by society.[2][3] However, added advocates altercate that affliction is a aftereffect of exclusion from boilerplate association and not any inherent impairment.[4][5]
Contents [hide]
1 Types of disability
1.1 Concrete disability
1.2 Acoustic disability
1.2.1 Vision impairment
1.2.2 Hearing impairment
1.2.3 Olfactory and acoustic impairment
1.2.4 Somatosensory impairment
1.2.5 Balance disorder
1.3 Intellectual disability
1.4 Brainy bloom and affecting disabilities
1.5 Pervasive adorning disorders
1.6 Adorning disability
1.7 Nonvisible disabilities
2 Sociology of disability
2.1 Terminology
2.2 People-first language
2.3 Literature
2.3.1 Masculinity
2.3.2 Femininity
2.4 Affliction and poverty
2.5 Affliction and disasters
3 Theory
3.1 The medical model
3.2 The amusing model
3.3 Added models
4 Management
4.1 Assistive technology
4.2 Adapted sports
5 Discrimination, government policies, and support
5.1 United Nations
5.2 Costa Rica
5.3 United Kingdom
5.3.1 Employment
5.4 United States
5.4.1 Discrimination in employment
5.4.2 African Americans and disability
5.4.3 Amusing Security Administration
5.4.4 Education
5.4.5 Insurance
6 Demographics
6.1 Estimates worldwide
7 Political issues
7.1 Affliction abuse
7.2 Affliction rights movement
7.3 Affliction insurance
8 See also
9 References
10 Sources
11 External links

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