Disabilities, Challenges, and Assistive Technologies: Categories and Characteristics of Disabilities and Associated Barriers Flashcards
Chapter 4.2 of the CPACC body of knowledge.
Name the 9 different categories of Disabilities:
- Visual disabilities
- Auditory disabilities
- Deaf-blindness
- Speech disabilities
- Mobility, Flexibility, and Body Structure Disabilities
- Cognitive disabilities
- Seizure disabilities
- Psychological / Psychiatric disabilities
- Multiple / Compound disabilities
Name the 3 types of Visual disabilities:
- Blindness
- Color blindness
3 Low-vision
Define Blindness:
Sensory disability involving the complete or near-complete loss of vision
Define Color blindness:
A sensory disability that impairs a person’s ability to distinguish certain color combinations
Define Low-vision:
Uncorrectable vision loss that interferes with daily activities
Name barriers for people with Visual disabilities:
- Materials, menus and navigation aids are not made available in alternative formats
- Lack of descriptions that would aid navigation
- No text alternatives for structural elements on websites
- Page cannot be resized without loss of information
- Missing visual cues
- No alternatives for video content
- Difficult navigation systems
- Insufficient color contrasts
- No full keyboard support on websites
Define Visual disabilities:
Sensory disabilities that can range from some amount of vision loss, loss of visual acuity, or increased or decreased sensitivity to specific or bright colors, to complete or uncorrectable loss of vision in either or both eyes.
Define Auditory disabilities:
Sensory disabilities that range from partial to complete hearing loss.
Name 3 types of Auditory disabilities:
- Deafness
- Hard of Hearing
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Define Deafness:
Total or near-total loss of hearing
Define Hard of hearing:
Hearing loss ranging from mild to severe, who still have some useful hearing, and may communicate through sign language, spoken language, or both understand spoken language in some situations, with or without amplification
Define Central auditory processing disorder:
Described as greater than expected difficulty hearing and understanding speech even though no measurable hearing loss exists. Or the inability to interpret, organize, or analyze what’s heard.
Name barriers for people with Auditory disabilities:
- Not enough amplification of sound during events etc.
- Unavailability of sign language interpretation
- Loud or conflicting noises in environment
- Websites that require voice-activation
- Audio presented without captions or audiodescription
- Media players that do not support custom captions
Define Deaf-blindness:
Deaf-blindness is a rare condition, that requires touch as the primary means of communication. It is a sensory disability that includes both deafness and blindness
Define Speech disabilities:
Speech disorders can range from mild slurred speech to the complete inability to move the mouth to speak
Name 5 types of Speech disabilities:
- No speech
- Articulation
- Aphasia
- Apraxia
- Dysarthria
Define Articulation:
Speech disorder involving difficulties articulating specific types of sounds.
Name 3 types of Articulation disorder categories:
- Speech sound disorder
- Phonological process disorder
- Motor speech disorder
Define Aphasia:
An impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. Various types of Aphasia exist.
Define No speech:
Having no speech, or mutism, is an inability to speak and can be caused by damage to the brain and / or speech muscles, by emotional or psychological reasons, or by a combination of causes.
Name barriers for people with Speech disabilities:
- Lack of text-based alternatives for speech communication
Define Mobility, Flexibility, and Body Structure Disabilities:
Mobility impairments cause decline in the independence of an individual’s movement, purposeful movement and other extremities. They can be temporal or chronic of nature.
Name 4 types of Mobility, Flexibility, and Body Structure Disabilities:
- Manual dexterity/Fine motor control
- Ambulation
- Muscle fatigue
- Body size or shape
Define Manual dexterity/Fine motor control:
The intricate and detailed movements of the hand and wrist needed to manipulate, control and use objects, produce neat, legible handwriting, and dress independently.