DISABILITY AND CHALENGING BEHAVIOR

Disability and Challenging Behavior

Disability and Challenging Behavior

Disability

According to the Federal Disability Equality Act, the criteria for disability are as follows: “Disability is the result of a physical, mental or psychological Functional impairment or impairment of sensory functions. The harm must consist of at least six months” (Turnbull, 1995).

Disability is also defined as, “People are disabled if their physical function, mental ability with high probability more than six months from the typical for the age and condition vary; therefore, their participation in the life of society is affected. They are threatened by disability if the impairment is expected” (McCrudden, 2007). The WHO (World Health Organization) is different on disability three terms:

Damage: These include deficiencies or abnormalities of the anatomical, psychological or between physiological functions and structures of the body. Damage may include: illness, accident or congenital defect. Impairment: These include functional impairments or deficiencies in- ground of damage; interfere with the typical everyday situations or impossible making. Thus, the damage leads to impaired coping everyday life.

Disability: Disadvantages of a person from injury or impairment, for example, in the family and social context.

More recent definitions of the WHO go from a bio-psycho-social model, as well as the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health WHO). It describes every human being on a continuum on which any more or disabled or less functional. This is moving away from the strict separation of disability or non-disability and towards a smooth transition. The model taken into account, above all, contextual factors (environmental factors, age, gender, etc.) and shows that in many cases the environment “disabled” (Cook, 2006, p, 1391-1405).

Disease

Davis, Dougados, Braun, Sieper & Heijde (2006) define disease as “disturbance of the vital processes in organs or in whole organism with the result of perceived or objectively ascertainable physical, mental or emotional changes” (p, 1518-1520). This definition is rather from a medical and biological model. AL,YT, JC & TH (2005), however, suggests an inclusive definition of disease by several models considered: “Disease is the stage of the imbalance of Risk and protective factors, which occurs when a people a deal with internal (Physical and psychological) and external (social and material) are not requirements Disability & Illness Children's Foundation Dream, February 2010 Pupils Service 1/2 Disability & Illness Children's Foundation Dream, February 2010 Pupils Service 2/2 succeed (p, 2089-2100).

Need for Care

Both in the literature, particularly in the medical and special education area, as well as the general public, were and various terms for the determination of the persons concerned are used. People with learning difficulties were as stopped in their development, as “incapable of education” (Hughes, McKie, Hopkins & Watson, 2005, p, 259-275) and bring the former states to the point: “This leaves only the diagnosis, information and finally, the assignment and custody”. This attitude towards the victims explains why the areas of sexuality, relationships and parenthood to today represent hardly topic of public discussion. Only in recent decades sat in the educational, but also in the medical field, ...