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Parents with disabilities are people with certain disorders (mental, physical, or other types) who are raising young children or being cared for by their young children. Disability brings various problems to the parents themselves, their children and the whole family. Researchers have studied the effects and issues raised by disabled parents.
But most injuries, impairments and disabilities typically occur more frequently as one grows older and experiences the effects of senescence (biological aging). [7] Four facts clarify the interrelationship of age with physical and sensory vulnerability: young people become old; young people can become disabled; old people can become disabled
long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder [a person's] full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. [3] Disabilities have been perceived differently throughout history, through a variety of different theoretical lenses.
Developmental disability is a diverse group of chronic conditions, comprising mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood. Developmental disabilities cause individuals living with them many difficulties in certain areas of life, especially in "language, mobility, learning, self-help, and independent living". [1]
A primary criticism of the social model is its centring of the experiences of individuals with physical impairments, which has resulted in overlooking other forms of disability, such as mental health conditions. [7] A secondary criticism relates to how the social model underplays impairments' impacts.
There are a variety of disabilities affecting cognitive ability.This is a broad concept encompassing various intellectual or cognitive deficits, including intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation), deficits too mild to properly qualify as intellectual disability, various specific conditions (such as specific learning disability), and problems acquired later in life through ...
Autistic culture is based on a belief that autism is a unique way of being and not a disorder to be cured. [4] The Aspie world , as it is sometimes called, contains people with Asperger syndrome (AS) and high functioning autism (HFA), and can be linked to three historical trends: the emergence of AS and HFA as labels, the emergence of the ...
The scientific study of the causes of developmental disorders involves many theories. Some of the major differences between these theories involves whether environment disrupts normal development, if abnormalities are pre-determined, or if they are products of human evolutionary history which become disorders in modern environments (see evolutionary psychiatry). [5]