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*a ‘dis-ability’ is an ‘impairment’ that may be…*
‘cognitive’
‘developmental’
‘intellectual’
‘mental’
‘physical’
‘sensory’
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(…or some combination of these, and that substantially affects a person’s ‘life activities’)
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(a ‘disability’ may be present from birth or occur during a person’s lifetime)
Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairmentsAn impairment is a problem in body function or structure
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an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action;
while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.
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Disability is thus not just a health problem.
It is a complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives
(‘disability’ is a ‘contested concept’, with different meanings for different communities)
activity limitations,
and participation restrictions.
(it may be used to refer to physical or mental attributes that some institutions, particularly medicine, view as needing to be fixed (the ‘medical model’))
(it may refer to limitations imposed on people by the constraints of an ‘ableist society’ (the ‘social model’)
(or the term may serve to refer to the identity of people with ‘disabilities’)
(the discussion over disability’s definition arose out of ‘disability activism’ in the U.S. and U.K. in the 1970s, which challenged how the medical concept of disability dominated perception and discourse about ‘disabilities’)
(debates about proper terminology and their implied politics continue in disability communities and the academic field of ‘disability studies’)
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(in some countries, the law requires that ‘disabilities’ are documented by a ‘health-care provider’ in order to assess qualifications for ‘disability benefits’)
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