SHAFAQ RIAZ

BS PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER 6TH

TOPIC: TESTING FOR PHYSICALLY

DISABILITIES
 PHYSICALY DISABILITIES
● DEFINITION:
a physical disability is a limitation on a person
physical functioning,mobility and stamina. Other
physical disabilities include impairments with
limit other facets of daily life such as respiratory
disorder, blindness, epilepsy and sleep
disorders.
 CATEGORIES
● HEREDITARY : where a person has been born
with a physical disability or developed one due
to inherited genetic problems, has suffered an
injury at birth and issues with their muscles.
● ACQUIRED: it could be due to an accident,
infection or disease or a side effect of medical
condition .
 EXAMPLES
● Loss of limbs
● A spinal cord injury
● Cerebral palsy
 BRAIN INJURIES
● They occur after birth
● As a result of damage to brain through
accidents, stroke, tumors, infection and lack of
oxygen
● These occurrence can cause damage to
cognitive , physical,emotional sensory function
of brain these disabilities can be temporary or
permanents
 EPILEPSY
● The cause of epilepsy are not always known
but brain trauma, stroke, brain cancer,drugs
and alcohol are thought to be significant factors
● Some people are able to treat their epilepsy
with medication, and surgery
 CEREBRAL PALSY
● It affect the way brain controls body muscles
resulting in speech ,movement
● In most cases it is caused by brain injury or
abnormal development that occurs before birth
 CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF)
● It is hereditary genetic condition ,inherited when
gene is carried by both parents
● It affect respiratory , digestive and reproductive
system because of malfunction in a mucus and
sweat glands which cause mucus to thicken as
result it infect body organs
 Hearing impairment
● Due to their general retardation in language
development, hearing impairment children are
usually handicap by verbal test, even when
verbal content id presented visually
● The testing for deaf children , they make
different scales like, Paterson performance
scale, Arthur performance scale and wechsler
scale
● Most of verbal tests administered if oral
question are typed on cards and various
procedure for communicating the instructions
for performance test have been worked out