Empowering People with Disabilities Flashcards
(45 cards)
____ means an individual has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his/her major life activities
disability
These are what most people think about when they hear the term “disability.”
Physical Disabilites
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
Because individuals who have
difficulty with mobility may be stopped by barriers most people don’t notice
mobility problems
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
Difficulty using handsor arms may or may not accompany mobilitydifficulties.
Limited use of hands and arms
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
Posing challenges to communication may make phone conversation difficult or impossible, and often lead to frustrating exchanges in restaurants, doctors’ offices, and stores.
Speech difficulties
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
Backs, knees, and hips, because of injury, arthritis, or aging, may be fine one day and non-functional the next.
Back or joint problems
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
Nerve damage from injury, disease, or repetitive motion may cause intense and chronic pain
Chronic pain
SENSORY LIMITATIONS
Some people are born totally or partially deaf.
Hearing difficulties or deafness
SENSORY LIMITATIONS
Like deafness, blindness may date from birth, or may be a result of injury or a medical condition.
Vision difficulties or blindness
SENSORY LIMITATIONS
For a person depending on a _____, such as a ____ dog, access includes accommodations for the animal as well
service animal, “seeing eye”
_____ means having to do with the nervous system.
Neurological
NEUROLOGICAL
Long thought to be psychological, migraine disease
is actually a neurological syndrome, the major symptom of which is usually incredibly painful and debilitating headaches, often accompanied by vision disturbances, weakness, and/or nausea.
Migraines
NEUROLOGICAL
People with epilepsy may function normally most of the time, but occasionally may have seizures
Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
NEUROLOGICAL
in Epilepsy, what are seizures technically called ____
convulsions
NEUROLOGICAL
A neurological condition characterized
by uncontrollable tics (twitches) of both body and voice,
Tourette syndrome
These disabilities are the result of genetic factors and development, often before birth.
Cognitive Limitations
COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS
Symptoms generally develop very early in life
(by about age 3), and involve a difficulty in processing
information that leads to lack of interest in interacting
with others (as well as blindness to social cues and
norms) and with the environment.
Autism
COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS
Genetic defects (e.g., Down syndrome), lack of proper brain development, environmental poisoning (from lead paint, for instance), or brain injury can lead to difficulties in taking in and understanding information, acquiring speech, and other reasoning-based activities.
Other intellectual limitations
Mental illness is much like physical illness in that it can be influenced by environmental factors and events, and is often treatable with drugs.
PSYCHIATRIC LIMITATIONS
PSYCHIATRIC LIMITATIONS
It is usually characterized by an altered
reality. Hearing voices is a classic symptom, but the
range can include other hallucinations, both visual and
auditory; delusions (of persecution, omnipotence, etc.);
and dissociation (inability to make logical connections
and to respond to reality).
Schizophrenia
PSYCHIATRIC LIMITATIONS
____ causes swings between depression and an overly optimistic and agitated state.
Bipolar disorder
PSYCHIATRIC LIMITATIONS
bipolar disorder is widely known as ___
manic depression
PSYCHIATRIC LIMITATIONS
Almost everyone gets at least mildly depressed occasionally, due to a life event or for no apparent reason.
Chronic depression
The____ prevents job discrimination against alcoholics and rehabilitated or former drug users
Americans with Disabilities Act
