Study notes
Disabilities: Seeing difficulties, hearing difficulties, speaking difficulties, gripping/holding, moving/mobility difficulties, body movement difficulties, personal care difficulties, behavioural difficulties
Term used to denote 'disability': "La déficience, l'incapacité, le handicap" (deficiency, incapacity, handicap)
Definition of this term: -Deficiency: any loss of substance or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function. It can occur at the level of organ or system function as a total or partial physical imperfection or a lack of an organ. It can also involve a functional imperfection of the nervous system. The blindness, the deafness, the loss of sight of an eye, the paralysis of an organ, the amputation of an organ, the mental deficiency, the partial vision, the lostness or the dumbness could be causes of deficiency.
-Incapacity: it is defined as any restriction (resulting from a deficiency) or luck of ability to carry out an activity in the way or within the range considered as normal for a human being. It could result from a total or partial deficiency. According to the United Nations, the incapacity includes the difficulties in seeing, speaking, hearing, moving, climbing the stairs, seizing, reaching, taking a bath, eating or washing.
-Handicap: deficiency for a given individual resulting from a loss or an incapacity, which limits or prevents the fulfilment of a role that is normal (depending on age, sex, social and cultural factors). It may also be applicable to the circumstances, in which the disabled people live.
Source of this definition: WHO
Questions used to identify persons with disabilities: "Do you suffer from any type of disability: physical disability: motor or/and chronic; sensory disability; mental disability?" "Are you employed? If yes, please specify: employed, unemployed, housewife, student, annuitant, retired, seriously ill, children, other."
Minimum duration to be considered as a person with disability: Na
