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According to many definitions, a disability or functional impairment is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. Other definitions describe disability as the societal disadvantage arising from such impairments. Disability substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Disability"

The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

The Ending Fire (The Ending Fire Trilogy, #3)

Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help

Jessi's Secret Language: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #12)

Last Call at the Local (Love, Lists & Fancy Ships, #3)

Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice

Quiet Beautiful Things (The Brothers of Calloway Creek: The Montanas #1)

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)

Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters, #1)

ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain

Ever After Always (Bergman Brothers, #3)

Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2)

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

The Temporary Wife (Once Upon a Time #1)

The Invisible College (The Invisible College, #1)

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

Very Bad at Math (A Very Graphic Novel #1)

The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

Once Smitten, Twice Shy (The Wilmot Sisters, #3)

How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

Buried Too Deep (Romantic Suspense #30; New Orleans #3)

Tessa and Weston: The Best Christmas Ever

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Quotes Tagged “Disability”

“ Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no j ...more ”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

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“ Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds that the dorms and classrooms can't accommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. There is also the su ...more ”
― Rosemarie Garland Thomson

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