Disability Awareness

Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments activity limitations and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in the body function or structure; An activity limitations is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action ; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life's situations. Thus disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a persons body and features of the society in which he or she lives in.