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
