List Of All Disabilities

The lists of different kinds of disabilities that exist are almost non ending and these disabilities can have various kinds of impacts on the health and body of the person. These disabilities are related to the mind and to the body, and thus they often influence both in a combination. The term disability has often been used to define the lack of ability relative to a personal or group standard or norm. These disabilities have also involved different kinds of physical impairment such as sensory impairment, cognitive or intellectual impairment.

Apart from this the lists of disabilities also include mental disorders, which are known as psychiatric or psychosocial disability and other types of chronic diseases. These disabilities may occur during a person's lifetime or may be present from birth and has been usually related to child birth. All kinds of disabilities have been seen to create an impact on the individual, which may be direct or indirect. In these cases the focus is typically on aspects of those individuals, who suffer from these disabilities, and how they could function better.

Generally termed a medical model of disability, this view has been established to provide better treatment options to the patients suffering from these problems. The interaction between people and their environment is a vital factor here and thus the focus may be on the role of society, which has often targeted or labeled some people as having a disability relative to others.

One of the most common kinds of these disabilities seen in children includes learning disabilities, which are problems in one more of the central nervous system processes. These problems are also involved in perceiving, understanding and implementing these concepts through verbal systems, which are both spoken or written, and also include language or nonverbal means. These forms of disabilities manifest itself with a deficit in areas like memory, attention, reasoning, processing, communication, reading, writing, spelling, and other aspects.

Then there is the hearing impairment, which is also a generic term including both deaf and hard of hearing. This refers to people of all kinds who are suffering with any type or degree of hearing loss that results in problems in hearing and working in a traditional way. These hearing problems can affect the whole range or only part of the auditory spectrum. In this reference the speech perception is an important region and ranges between 250 and 4,000 Hz. People with profound hearing losses and those who cannot benefit from amplification are termed as deaf.

Then there are certain problems where elder people tend to be slower in learning new skills and the also have difficulty in memorizing and reacting quickly similar instructions. Then there are problems like dexterity impairment or the arms, hands and fingers, which leads to reduced function of arms and hands. This also makes activities related to moving and turning around of objects difficult. Apart from these there are various kinds of other disabilities that lead to problems of both the mind and the body. However there are various kinds of treatments available for dealing with these problems.

• Cassandra Bagley
• 13/03/2009, 8:59 PM
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