Physical Disabilities:A physical disability is a limitation on a person's physical functioning, mobility, dexterity or stamina. Other physical disabilities include impairments which limit other facets of daily living, such as respiratory disorders, blindness, epilepsy and sleep disorders.
Book: Disabilities that can affect a persons ability to move about, use the arms and legs, and or breath independently.
IDEA: Severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a Childs educational performance
1: Traumatic brain injury: Occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue. Symptoms of TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain
2: Epilepsy: Brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells, or neurons in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. In epilepsy, the normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions, and behavior
3: Cerebral Palsy: Represents a group of chronic conditions that affect muscle coordination and body movement. It is a neuromuscular disorder caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, most often occurring during fetal development usually before birth, but may follow during or shortly after birth
4:Cystic Fibrosis: Inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of a bout 30,000 children and adults in the United States (70,000 world wide)
5: Spinal Cord Injury: Happens without any advanced notice. They are generally a result of some normal activity-driving a car, hiking, skiing, sledding, or diving. About 12,500 spinal cord injuries take place each year in the United States
6: Asthma: Swelling and inflammation of the air passages that transport air from the mouth and nose to the lungs. This swelling within the affected passages causes them to narrow, thus limiting the air entering and exiting the individual
7: Spina Bifida: Collective term for malformations of the spinal chord and is the most common neutral tube deficit. This defect can occur at any level of the spinal chord, although it more commonly affects the lumbar and sacral spine
8: Prader-Willi syndrome: A genetic disorder that causes obesity, intellectual disability, and shortness in height
What teachers can do to help students that have physical disabilities:
Have backpacks hanging on hooks instead of on the ground
Organized classroom
Have things in handout form
Know that they may be late for class on occasion because it takes them longer to get places
Be flexible on students missing class for doctor appointments
Extra space for them if they need
Extensions for deadlines on work
Let them stand if they feel more comfortable that me