What's Disability?

Cards (4)

  • Disability is the impairment causing long term limitations of a person's physical, mental or sensory function
  • Stigma = Negative Label
  • Master Status = The defining characteristic by which a person is judged
  • Learned Helplessness = Describes the way that some disabled may internalise the idea that they are incapable of changing a situation, and thus fail to take action to help themselves