Disability Abbreviations

As established by the ICF, the concept of “disability” (impairment) has an eminently biological focus. Refers to changes or abnormalities in the body’s structures and functions (including mental ones), such as a major deviation or loss.
We can consider four major groupings: psychic, sensory, physical and mixed disabilities.

The term “disability” corresponds to a more complex and comprehensive notion; it refers to the dysfunctionality in all its different levels: deficiencies, limitations in the activity and restrictions of participation and not only to one of its aspects.
According to the WHO, disability is the restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity within the limits considered normal for a human being. Disabilities can be temporary or permanent, reversible or irreversible, progressive or regressive, and are always the result of a disability.

In practice, a person with a disability may have a greater or lesser degree of disability, be more or less functional in their daily lives, depending on the conditions they find in the physical and social environment. That’s why it becomes so important to improve it, to make it for everyone. And we all have that responsibility. Even because disability is seen, in the light of the new paradigm, as something that occurs to all people, at some point in life.

List of Acronyms Related to Disability