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    Ability and disability refer to an individual's competence or skills and impairments that limit major life activities. While ability is defined as possessing qualities to do something, disability is defined more broadly by the WHO as limitations in interaction with one's environment due to health conditions. The ADA defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities. Disabilities can affect senses or mobility and be static or progressive. A person's disability makes them unique and they should be recognized as human beings who deserve rights and not discrimination but rather understanding and acceptance as part of diversity.

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    Ability and disability refer to an individual's competence or skills and impairments that limit major life activities. While ability is defined as possessing qualities to do something, disability is defined more broadly by the WHO as limitations in interaction with one's environment due to health conditions. The ADA defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities. Disabilities can affect senses or mobility and be static or progressive. A person's disability makes them unique and they should be recognized as human beings who deserve rights and not discrimination but rather understanding and acceptance as part of diversity.

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    Ability and Dis-Wps Office

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    Ability and disability refer to an individual's competence or skills and impairments that limit major life activities. While ability is defined as possessing qualities to do something, disability is defined more broadly by the WHO as limitations in interaction with one's environment due to health conditions. The ADA defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities. Disabilities can affect senses or mobility and be static or progressive. A person's disability makes them unique and they should be recognized as human beings who deserve rights and not discrimination but rather understanding and acceptance as part of diversity.

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    "ABILITY AND DISABILITY AS A DIMENSION OF DIVERSITY"

    ABILITY

     refers to the possession of the qualities required to do something; necessary skill or


    competence or power- Collins English Dictionary.

    DISABILITY

     on the other hand, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO n.d.) as the umbrella term
    for impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions, referring to the negative
    aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and the individual's
    contextual factors (environmental and personal factors).

    The American Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) defines disability as:

     a person with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially
    limits one or more major life activity.

    Disabilities may affect one's senses or one's mobility; they maybe static or progressive, congenital or
    acquired, formal (affecting the shape of the body) or functional, visible or invisible,

    (Couser, 2005).

     A person's disability makes him or her a unique individual who is, at times, shunned from places
    and activities. They have to be acknowledged as part of the spectrum of diversity.
     They have to be recognized as human beings who should not be discriminated against, but
    rather understood, accepted, and tolerated. They have to be accorded their rights.

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