A Note On Types Of Disabilities

Various physical and mental impairments can hampertwo types of brain injuries: Acquired Brain Injury
or reduce a person's ability to carry out his day to(ABI) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). ABI is not a
day activities. These impairments can be termed ashereditary type defect but is the degeneration that
disability of the person to do his day to day activitiesoccurs after birth. The causes of such cases of injury
as previously. Let's take a note on types ofare many and are mainly because of external forces
disabilities here.applied to the body parts. TBI results in emotional
Mobility: This category of disability includes peopledysfunctioning and behavioral disturbance.
with varying types of physical disabilities. This includesVision Disibility: There are hundreds of thousands of
upper limb disability, manual dexterity and disability inpeople that suffer from minor to various serious
co-ordination with different organs of the body.vision injuries or impairments. These injuries can also
Disability in mobility can be either an in-born orresult into some serious problems or diseases like
acquired with age problem. It could also be the effectblindness and ocular trauma, to name a few. Some of
of some disease. People who have a broken bonethe common vision impairment includes scratched
also fall into this category of disability.cornea, scratches on the sclera, diabetesw related
Spinal Cord Disability: Spinal cord injuries caneye conditions, dry eyes and corneal graft.
sometimes lead to lifelong disabilities. This kind ofHearing disability: This is the category that includes
injury mostly occurs due to severe accidents. Thepeople that are completely or partially deaf. People
injury can be complete or incomplete. In anwho are partially dumb can use hearing-aid to do
incomplete injury, the messages conveyed by theaway with the hearing problem. But the situation is
spinal cord is not completely lost. Whereas amore worse if the deafness is complete.
complete injury results in a total dis-functioning of theCognitive disability: It is a kind of impairment present
sensory organs. In rarest of cases spinal cordin people who are suffering from dyslexia and various
disability can be a birth defect though.other learning difficulties. People having dyslexia face
Brain Disability: A disability in the brain occurs due to adifficulties in reading, writing and speaking.
brain injury. The magnitude of the brain injury canThe author writes articles on different topics.
range from mild, moderate and severe. There are