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  2. WHO's initial classification for the effects of diseases, the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH), was created in 1980. [ 2 ] The ICF classification complements WHO's International Classification of Diseases -10th Revision (ICD), which contains information on diagnosis and health condition, but not ...

  3. Disability sport classification - Wikipedia

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    Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...

  4. Models of disability - Wikipedia

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    Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.

  5. Category:Disability - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities; ... International Classification of Functioning, Disability and ...

  6. Para-athletics classification - Wikipedia

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    Para-athletics classification is a system to determine which athletes with disabilities may compete against each other in para-athletics events. Classification is intended to group together athletes with similar levels of physical ability to allow fair competition.

  7. Wheelchair sport classification - Wikipedia

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    Classification is also handled nationally by national wheelchair sport organizations, or sport specific organizations. Wheelchair sport classification was first experimented with by Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital during the 1940s, and was formalized in the 1950s. This was a medical based classification system.

  8. Les Autres sport classification - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of Les Autres sport classification is to allow for fair competition between people of different disability types. [1] [2] As a system, its purpose in being created was largely to find a way to include people with certain types of disabilities not covered by other disability sport classification types, but who otherwise fit inside the model and culture of who should be a Paralympic ...

  9. Intellectual disability sport classification - Wikipedia

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    Classification for intellectual disabilities has included a number of criteria over the years. This includes using IQ test scored, having a medical diagnosis for an intellectual disability or having other diagnostic support materials. [1] Intellectual disability classification is a two step process on the international level.