Types Of Physical Disabilities

Too often the children suffer from developmental disabilities that make it tough for them to achieve the desired results in their school work. Sometimes such types of developmental disabilities are not known right away and they show up in their report cards and grades. Certainly there are some ways to overcome these things. Various physical and mental disorders can hamper or reduce the ability of a person to carry out his day to day activities. These disabilities can be termed as impairment of the person to do his day to day activities as previously.

Impairment in mobility is a category of disability that includes people with varying types of physical disabilities. This type of disability includes upper limb disability, manual dexterity and disability in co-ordination with different organs of the body. Disability in mobility can either be a congenital or acquired with age problem. This problem could also be the consequence of some disease. People who have a broken skeletal structure also fall into this category of disability.

Spinal cord disability is another consequence of spinal cord injuries which can sometimes lead even to lifelong disabilities. This kind of skeletal injury mostly occurs due to severe accidents. The spinal injury can be complete or incomplete. In an incomplete type of spinal injury, the messages conveyed by the spinal cord are not completely lost; whereas a complete injury results in a total malfunctioning of the sensory organs. In rarest of cases spinal cord impairment can be a birth defect though.

Brain Disability is a disability that occurs in the brain due to a brain injury. The degree of the brain injury can range from mild, moderate and severe. There are broadly two types of brain injuries; Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Acquired Brain Injury is not a hereditary type of disability but is the degeneration that occurs after birth. The causes of such disabled cases of injury are many and are mainly because of external forces applied to the body parts. Traumatic Brain Injury results in emotional malfunctioning and certain behavioral disturbance.

Vision Disability is another type of physical impairment. There are hundreds of thousands of people that greatly suffer from minor to various serious vision injuries or impairments. These types of injuries can also result into some severe problems or diseases like blindness and ocular trauma, to name a few. Some of the common types of vision impairment includes scratched cornea, scratches on the sclera, diabetesw related eye conditions, dry eyes and corneal graft.

Hearing disability is the category of physical impairment that includes people that are completely or partially deaf. People who are partly dumb can use hearing-aid to do away with the hearing problem. But this type of situation is worse if the deafness is complete.

Cognitive disability is a kind of physical impairment present in people who are suffering from dyslexia and various other learning difficulties. People having dyslexia problem face difficulties in reading, writing and speaking.

People must also know that physical disability is not always a condition where a certain organ stops functioning. Continuous pain may also reduce or negate the ability of a person to perform.

• Janny Raines
• 10/03/2009, 6:59 PM
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