Disabilities

Disabilities (General)

Disabilities are limitations in activity and/or functioning that are attributable to permanent medical conditions in physical, mental, emotional, and/or sensory domains and, significantly, are also due to societal responses to those limitations. Disabilities, then, denote more atomized perspectives on the phenomenon than does "disability" or "impairment". Those latter terms focus upon conditions within the individual. The term disabilities, by contrast, recognizes that people with disabiliti ...