Disability Awareness

• Ground rules

Common Impairments

Aims-

What are common impairments?

Understand the terms Visible and Invisible disabilities.

Increase understanding of some common impairments.

What does ‘Common Impairments’ mean?

David Beckham

Asthma

Stephen Hawking

• Muscular Dystrophy

Eddie Izzard

• Dyslexic

Oscar Pistorius

• Double amputee

Group tasks

Impairment Body System Brief Details Visible or Invisible

Visible Disabilities

Invisible Disabilities

Definition

Different Problems

Similar Problems

Last Line...

• "You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.“ Oacar Pistorus