Types of Disabilities and Support Services

1. Types of Disabilities and Support Services

2. Support services to people with disabilities are generally provided by the Government and mandated by law in several countries around the world. This is to help people who are disabled lead a dignified existence and participate in community and social life. Apart from the support services, many innovative technologies help these services function more effectively. Finally, commercially available support services are open to anybody who might wish to make use of them.

4. General Types of disabilities • There are several types of impairments that require the assistance of specialized disability services and support. • Intellectual Disability – This form is associated with conditions seen in the developmental period and is the slow growth of mental functions that control learning, performing daily life skills, and limitations in adaptive skills concerning community environments. One form of intellectual disability is Autism that involves disturbances in cognition and interpersonal communication. • Physical disability – This is mainly limited to physical cause or impact with the inability to perform physical activities such as mobility. These include the effects of paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, motor neuron disease, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, absence, or deformities of limbs. Another form of physical impairment that requires continues supervision and disability services and support is old age. 

5. Psychiatric disability – It is primarily related to recognizable symptoms and behavioral patterns, mostly concerning distress, all of which acts as a setback to the normal functioning of social activities. Typical aspects in this category are schizophrenia, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviors, personality disorders, stress, psychosis, depression, and adjustment disorders. In these cases, disability services and supportusually consist of offering help in interpersonal interactions and relationships rather than being a part of a larger disability group for therapy. • Apart from these major disability possibilities, there are acquired brain injury, neurological disabilities like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, vision, hearing, and dual loss of senses like being deaf and blind.      • For this post, the focus will be on disability services and support for the elderly and the aged who need coordinated services at home. The same packages apply to younger people with a disability such as dementia or other physical impairments where the care needs are not fulfilled by any other specialized services. • Before you select a disability services and support provider, it is essential to first evaluate your needs and the extent of assistance required. For example, as an elderly person, you might need help with domestic chores like cooking, cleaning, laundry, and shopping, as well as other active work like gardening or weeding your home garden or lawn. The extremely feeble aged people will also need assistance with personal care with showering, mobility and transport, or medication assistance. You might require all or only a part of the services and the financial package will be calculated proportionately. • All disability services and supportproviders are fully trained and have years of experience in this field.