A Note On Types Of Disabilities
Author: Ashish Jain
Various physical and mental impairments can hamper or reduce a
person's ability to carry out his day to day activities. These
impairments can be termed as disability of the person to do his
day to day activities as previously. Let's take a note on types
of disabilities here.
Mobility: This category of disability includes people with
varying types of physical disabilities. This includes upper limb
disability, manual dexterity and disability in co-ordination
with different organs of the body. Disability in mobility can be
either an in-born or acquired with age problem. It could also be
the effect of some disease. People who have a broken bone also
fall into this category of disability.
Spinal Cord Disability: Spinal cord injuries can sometimes lead
to lifelong disabilities. This kind of injury mostly occurs due
to severe accidents. The injury can be complete or incomplete.
In an incomplete injury, the messages conveyed by the spinal
cord is not completely lost. Whereas a complete injury results
in a total dis-functioning of the sensory organs. In rarest of
cases spinal cord disability can be a birth defect though.
Brain Disability: A disability in the brain occurs due to a
brain injury. The magnitude of the brain injury can range from
mild, moderate and severe. There are two types of brain
injuries: Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Traumatic Brain Injury
(TBI). ABI is not a hereditary type defect but is the
degeneration that occurs after birth. The causes of such cases
of injury are many and are mainly because of external forces
applied to the body parts. TBI results in emotional
dysfunctioning and behavioral disturbance.
Vision Disibility: There are hundreds of thousands of people
that suffer from minor to various serious vision injuries or
impairments. These injuries can also result into some serious
problems or diseases like blindness and ocular trauma, to name a
few. Some of the common vision impairment includes scratched
cornea, scratches on the sclera, diabetesw related eye
conditions, dry eyes and corneal graft.
Hearing disability: This is the category that includes people
that are completely or partially deaf. People who are partially
dumb can use hearing-aid to do away with the hearing problem.
But the situation is more worse if the deafness is complete.
Cognitive disability: It is a kind of impairment present in
people who are suffering from dyslexia and various other
learning difficulties. People having dyslexia face difficulties
in reading, writing and speaking.
About The Author: The author writes about a number of different
topics. For more information on disability visit
http://www.about-disability.com/ and also visit the article
pages: http://www.about-disability.com/disability-aids/ and
http://www.about-disability.com/disability-insurance/
Author: Ashish Jain
Various physical and mental impairments can hamper or reduce a
person's ability to carry out his day to day activities. These
impairments can be termed as disability of the person to do his
day to day activities as previously. Let's take a note on types
of disabilities here.
Mobility: This category of disability includes people with
varying types of physical disabilities. This includes upper limb
disability, manual dexterity and disability in co-ordination
with different organs of the body. Disability in mobility can be
either an in-born or acquired with age problem. It could also be
the effect of some disease. People who have a broken bone also
fall into this category of disability.
Spinal Cord Disability: Spinal cord injuries can sometimes lead
to lifelong disabilities. This kind of injury mostly occurs due
to severe accidents. The injury can be complete or incomplete.
In an incomplete injury, the messages conveyed by the spinal
cord is not completely lost. Whereas a complete injury results
in a total dis-functioning of the sensory organs. In rarest of
cases spinal cord disability can be a birth defect though.
Brain Disability: A disability in the brain occurs due to a
brain injury. The magnitude of the brain injury can range from
mild, moderate and severe. There are two types of brain
injuries: Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Traumatic Brain Injury
(TBI). ABI is not a hereditary type defect but is the
degeneration that occurs after birth. The causes of such cases
of injury are many and are mainly because of external forces
applied to the body parts. TBI results in emotional
dysfunctioning and behavioral disturbance.
Vision Disibility: There are hundreds of thousands of people
that suffer from minor to various serious vision injuries or
impairments. These injuries can also result into some serious
problems or diseases like blindness and ocular trauma, to name a
few. Some of the common vision impairment includes scratched
cornea, scratches on the sclera, diabetesw related eye
conditions, dry eyes and corneal graft.
Hearing disability: This is the category that includes people
that are completely or partially deaf. People who are partially
dumb can use hearing-aid to do away with the hearing problem.
But the situation is more worse if the deafness is complete.
Cognitive disability: It is a kind of impairment present in
people who are suffering from dyslexia and various other
learning difficulties. People having dyslexia face difficulties
in reading, writing and speaking.
About The Author: The author writes about a number of different
topics. For more information on disability visit
http://www.about-disability.com/ and also visit the article
pages: http://www.about-disability.com/disability-aids/ and
http://www.about-disability.com/disability-insurance/
