What are the different types of impairments?
What are the different types of impairments?
Some examples of common disabilities you may find are:
- vision Impairment.
- deaf or hard of hearing.
- mental health conditions.
- intellectual disability.
- acquired brain injury.
- autism spectrum disorder.
- physical disability.
What are the physical and mental impairments?
The term “physical or mental impairment” includes, but is not limited to, such diseases and conditions as orthopedic, visual, speech, and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental retardation, emotional illness, and drug addiction and …
What is a physical disability?
A physical disability is a physical condition that affects a person’s mobility, physical capacity, stamina, or dexterity. This can include brain or spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, respiratory disorders, epilepsy, hearing and visual impairments and more.
What does mental impairment include?
Any mental or psychological disorder, such as an intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities.
What are the two types of the invisible illnesses?
Some examples of invisible illnesses include:
- Allergies and food intolerances.
- Arthritis, especially rheumatoid.
- Cancer.
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
- Fibromyalgia.
- Depression and mental illness.
- Diabetes.
- Digestive disorders such as Celiac, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
What are common physical disabilities?
Impairments caused by injuries of the skeletal system along with muscles, joints and ligaments: These common physical disabilities include amputations and disabilities due to spinal cord injuries (SCI). An amputee is a person who has lost all or a portion of an arm or a leg due to an amputation.
What is physiological vs physical?
While physical and physiological both refer to bodies, physical means the body itself while physiological refers to the body’s functions.
What is physiological pain?
Physiological Pain. Physiological pain may be defined as a specific sensorial sensation induced in normal tissues when external stimuli are applied with sufficient intensity to endanger tissue integrity. Because pain may be induced by a wide variety of stimuli, it has not always been accepted as constituting a sensorial sensation.
What is physical impairment?
A physical impairment is generally defined as any type of disorder, injury, disability, or handicap that impedes normal physical functioning. There are numerous causes of physical impairment, ranging from inherited and acquired diseases, to congenital defects, to injuries.