Disability Types

Many Very few people can imagine themselves being disabled; in fact it is hard to imagine them selves being on a state of disability, especially if people are completely normal. Maybe if they have been to an accident where in they could not do a single thing by themselves, then probably they have an idea what it is like. But for the benefit of those people who have not got an accident, they hardly ever think how it would be like if they have one of the several disability types. Lucky are those people who are living normally everyday. That actually means people have everything to be thankful for every single day that passes by.

Now hat actually disability really means and what it involves! If people have a mental or physical impairment, and if such impairment can affect their daily activities or limit them to perform daily activities, that is called disability. Such as, blind people find it hard to do some things like going to school or work place normally. Disability however, does not only relate to obvious conditions such as hearing or vision disability. In fact there are different disability types that people might care to know such as hearing, eyesight, mobility, and cognitive disability. The following is a list of different disability types:

People are considered to have an eyesight disability if they do not have normal vision even if they wear eyeglasses or contact lenses. Visual impairment or disability may be caused by several eye diseases like age related muscular degeneration, cataracts, and more. There are vision disabilities or impairments that can be treated medically, but there also that can not be corrected medically after accidents or inherited ocular disorders.

Hearing disability includes people who are totally deaf or have partial hearing ability in one or both ears. To correct this disability however, people are required the use of a hearing aid. If one may have noticed, there are people who have hearing disability yet can still communicate through sign language.

Mobility refers to different disabled people with varying types of physical disabilities. It is often related to individual people with manual dexterity, upper limb mobility, and co-ordination problem. Mobility mutilation or impairment is one of the disability types that affect movement ranging from gross motor skills like walking, to fine motor movement involving manipulation of objects by hand. Some people use assistive equipment such as wheelchair or electronic strollers to be able to move around.

Cognition is another type of disability. This condition includes many different functions including the abilities to pay attention, learn and retain information, solve problems, and use language to express thoughts. Cognitive disability actually refers to people with dyslexia, a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs their ability to read, and other learning difficulties. On the other hand, learning problems differs from someone who has a serious mental impairment. People may be suffering from one or more types of disability, but it does not mean there is nothing that can be done about it. Disability of any type can lower, or worse lose, the self confidence as it always does, yet people can still gain control of their life through the use of assistive equipment.

• Matt Thompson
• 13/01/2009, 2:59 PM
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