What is a Disability and What Are the Different Types of Disability?

These are the questions you may be asking and thatAny part of the body that stops you or makes life a
will be answered. Anything that affects you from doinglittle harder, is a disability. If you have a missing thumb
an activity that any person without a disability can do.or other body-parts from a drastic accident, then you
There are a lot of different disabilities that are mentalhave a physical disability because you do not own
and physical, and you do not always start with awhat the average person does. If you are unable to
disability. More people obtain disabilities later in lifemove a certain body part or you are unable to walk.
instead of at birth.You may be considered to have disabilities.
There are a lot of physical disabilities that people canIf you have difficulty taking in certain information from
obtain. These physical disabilities include walking,other people, maybe you cannot do any activities
hearing, or not being able to move a certain part ofwithout assistance, or if you cannot talk with people,
your body. Even the smaller things like if you haveyou are most likely considered to have a disability.
poor vision then you can be considered to have aMental disabilities are obtained at birth, but sometimes
disability. If you are unable to hear out of both ears,you can get a mental disability from a tragic accident
you definitely have the possibility of having a hearinglike falling off something high off the ground.
disability.If you have a hard time talking with different people,
Eyesight disability affects a lot of people nowadays. Ifthen you probably can claim mental disability. If you
you are a person that wears glasses, you technicallycannot think for yourself or able to think easily, you
have Eyesight disability. Even if your eye sight is slightlymay have a mental disability. People with dyslexia
bad, as long as you have glasses or contacts, you arehave a disability because letters and numbers appear
able to claim Eyesight disability. You can get obtain badbackwards in the brain. People with dyslexia have a
vision over time because your eyes just get worn outharder time thinking than the average human, thus
from age, but some people are born with bad eyemaking dyslexia a disability.
sight and can claim the disability right away. Even if theWhenever a daily activity that takes five minutes for
disability develops over time, you can still claim disability.the average person starts taking ten minutes for
If you have difficulty listening to people, or you areanother person, the person that is taking ten minutes
always asking everybody to repeat themselves, youmay have a disorder. It may be attempting to read
may have a hearing disability. Whether you are deaf,something or trying to walk around, the person still may
or partially deaf, it does not make a difference, youhave a disability. If this person sounds like you, you
can still qualify as a hearing disability.should go to your doctor and see if you are disabled.