DISABILITIES
A disability is any condition which makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or interact with the world around them. These conditions, or impairments, may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factors. Impairments causing disability may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defines disability as: 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.
Disability is a contested concept, with different meanings in different communities. The term disability may refer to physical or mental attributes that some institutions, particularly medicine, view as needing to be fixed (the medical model); it may also refer to limitations imposed on people by the constraints of an ableist society (the social model); or the term may serve to refer to the identity of disabled people. Physiological functional capacity (PFC) is a measure of an individual's performance level that gauges one's ability to perform the physical tasks of daily life and the ease with which these tasks are performed. PFC declines with advancing age to result in frailty, cognitive disorders, or physical disorders, all of which may lead to labeling individuals as disabled. According to the World Report on Disability, 15% of the world's population or 1 billion people are affected by disability. A disability may be readily visible or of invisible in nature.
Publications:
R. van Laar, C. Tofan
Pages: 550 pages
Shipping Weight: 650 gram
Published: 07-2008
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058871862
Product Description
Current issues and debates surrounding `disability` include social and political rights, social inclusion and citizenship. In developed countries the debate has moved beyond a concern about perceived cost of maintaining dependent people with a disability to an effort to find effective ways of ensuring people with a disability that they can participate in and contribute to society in all spheres of life.
The "disabilities" series comes as an index of meetings, discussions and resolutions taken in order to enable "impaired" people to integrate in the society or in the community that surrounds them without being treated differenty or un-respectfully.
R. van Laar, C. Tofan
Pages: 550+ pages
Shipping Weight: 2100 gram
Published: 07-2008
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058871879
Product Description
Current issues and debates surrounding `disability` include social and political rights, social inclusion and citizenship. In developed countries the debate has moved beyond a concern about perceived cost of maintaining dependent people with a disability to an effort to find effective ways of ensuring people with a disability that they can participate in and contribute to society in all spheres of life.
The "disabilities" series comes as an index of meetings, discussions and resolutions taken in order to enable "impaired" people to integrate in the society or in the community that surrounds them without being treated differenty or un-respectfully.
Kristina Janjac (ed.)
Pages: 669 pages
Shipping Weight: 650 gram
Published: 11-2013
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058871794
Product Description
Current issues and debates surrounding `disability` include social and political rights, social inclusion and citizenship. In developed countries the debate has moved beyond a concern about perceived cost of maintaining dependent people with a disability to an effort to find effective ways of ensuring people with a disability that they can participate in and contribute to society in all spheres of life.
The "disabilities" series comes as an index of meetings, discussions and resolutions taken in order to enable "impaired" people to integrate in the society or in the community that surrounds them without being treated differenty or un-respectfully.
Kristina Janjac (ed.)
Pages: 469 pages
Shipping Weight: 650 gram
Published: 02-2014
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058870001
Product Description
Current issues and debates surrounding `disability` include social and political rights, social inclusion and citizenship. In developed countries the debate has moved beyond a concern about perceived cost of maintaining dependent people with a disability to an effort to find effective ways of ensuring people with a disability that they can participate in and contribute to society in all spheres of life.
The "disabilities" series comes as an index of meetings, discussions and resolutions taken in order to enable "impaired" people to integrate in the society or in the community that surrounds them without being treated differenty or un-respectfully.