{"id":7744,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/disability\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:11","slug":"disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/WorkArea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6442455478\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/WorkArea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6442455478?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps<\/a> (World Health Organization, 2001), any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. &nbsp;As the term reflects the consequences of impairment with regard to functional performance and activity by the individual, disabilities thus represent disturbances at the level of the whole person. &nbsp;Some would include developmental problems associated with social deprivation in the definition. &nbsp;The Ancient Greeks did not have a specific word for &#8216;disability&#8217;, but instead words like &#8216;unable&#8217;, and judged individuals as being such if they could not use prostheses. &nbsp;If they could, they might receive monetary assistance from the state to enable them to work. &nbsp;In cultures without prostheses such as wheelchairs and trained animal companions, individuals with dysfunctions might be considered to be more &#8216;unabled&#8217; than &#8216;disabled&#8217;. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cerebral_palsy\">Cerebral palsy<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_delay\">Developmental delay<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_disorders\">Developmental disorders<\/a>, <a href=\"disorder\">Disorder<\/a>, <a href=\"idea\">IDEA<\/a>, <a href=\"impairment\">Impairment<\/a>, <a href=\"learning_disability\">Learning disability<\/a>, `mnetal retardation, <a href=\"normality\">Normality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (World Health Organization, 2001), any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. &nbsp;As the term reflects the consequences of impairment with regard to functional performance and activity by the individual, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/disability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}