What is a Disability
A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or group
The term is used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment mental illness, and various types of chronic disease
Disability is conceptualized as being a multidimensional experience for the person involved
There may be effects on organs or body parts and there may be effects on a person's participation in areas of life
Correspondingly, three dimensions of disability are recognized in ICF: body structure and function
and impairment thereof activity and activity restrictions
and participation and participation restrictions
The classification also recognizes the role of physical
. and social environmental factors in affecting disability outcomes
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