Disability Definitions

DISABLED: all persons with a physical or mental disability that substantially impairs or restricts one or more of such major life activities as walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, working, or learning. A history of such disability, or the belief on the part of others that a person has such a disability, whether it is so or not, also is recognized as a disability by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the American With Disabilities Act of 1990. Conditions considered disabilities include, but are not limited to:

AIDS
Alcoholism
Blindness or Visual Impairment
Cancer
Cerebral Palsy
Deafness or Hearing Impairment
Diabetes
Drug Addiction
Epilepsy
Heart Disease
Mental or Emotional Illness
Mental Retardation
Multiple Sclerosis
Muscular Dystrophy
Orthopedic
Perceptual Disabilities; such as Dyslexia,
Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Developmental
Aphasia, or Speech Impairment

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Page last updated: Oct. 2, 2009