Disability Categories, Characteristics, and Associated Barriers Flashcards
A sensory disability involving nearly complete vision loss.
Blindness
Some are completely blind while others can perceive light versus dark or general shapes.
Blindness
At least 2.2 billion have this condition globally with at least 1 billion of those who could have been prevented or yet to be addressed.
Blindness
What is the leading cause of vision impairement?
Uncorrected refracted refractive errors and cataracts.
Majority of people with this disability are over 50 years old.
Blindness
What is the most common form of colorblindness?
Ability to distinguish reds and greens
Form of colorblindness that affects more men than women (1 in 12 males vs 1 in 200 females).
Red green colorblindness
Colorblindness that affects males and females equally and occurs fewer than 1 in 100,000 worldwide.
Blue yellow colorblindness
Rarest form of colorblindness and affects males more than females.
Blue cone monochromacy
Uncorrectable vision loss that interferes with daily activities.
Low vision
Permanently reduced vision that cannot be corrected with regular glasses, contacts, medicine or surgery.
Low vision
About 246 million or 3.5% of the world population have this diagnosis with about 90% of them living in low income settings.
Low vision
Sensory disability that ranges from partial to complete hearing loss.
Auditory disability
Total or near total loss of hearing.
Deafness
People with hearing loss ranging from mild to severe, who still have some useful hearing, and may communicate through ASL, spoken language or both.
Hard of hearing
466 million people or 6.1% of the worlds population have this diagnosis
Deaf or HoH
Not the inability to hear but the inability to interpret, organize, or analyze what is heard.
Auditory processing disorder
Difficulty understanding sounds in loud environments, following spoken directions, learning songs or instruments, learning languages.
Auditory processing disorder
5% of the global population have this diagnosis
Auditory processing disorder
Rare condition that requires touch as primary form of communication.
Deaf-blindness
Between .2 and 2% of people in the world have this diagnosis
Deaf-blindness
Speech disorder involving difficulties in producing specific types of sounds. Substitution of one sound for another, slurring, or indistinct speech.
Articulation
Mistakes with speech continue after a certain age.
Speech sound disorder
Patterns of not saying words correctly
Phonological process disorder
Person has trouble moving muscles required to talk
Motor speech disorder
Prevalence of this disorder is 8-9% in young children.
Speech disorder
Inability to recognize words or understand what is being said or be unable to speak or have difficulty saying what they mean, difficulty forming sentences.
Aphasia
2,000,000 people in USA with this diagnosis and 250,000 in Great Britain
Aphasia
Affects .47-.76% of population
Selective mutism
This disability is prevalent among children with ADHD and affects the ability to perform intricate and detailed movements of hand and wrist.
Fine Motor
Ability to walk from place to place independently with or without an assistive device.
Ambulation
Overwhelming sense of tiredness, lack of energy or feeling exhaustion, difficulty performing voluntary tasks.
Muscle fatigue
Affect a person’s stature, proportions, or shape.
Body size or shape
39-40% of adults are
Obese
