Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jargon, Independent Living, Situation Two

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Andrew Mantulak

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Usage has shifted to reflect a more inclusive view linking an individual with impairments to social, political, cultural, and environmental contexts. Disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments, conditions, or illnesses and the environmental and attitudinal barriers they face. Such impairments, conditions, or illnesses may be permanent, temporary, intermittent, or imputed, and include those that are physical, sensory, psychosocial, neurological, medical, or intellectual. Persons with disabilities include those with impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment: a problem in body function or structure. Activity limitation: a difficulty in executing a task or action. Participation restriction: a problem in involvement in life situations. The participation and activity limitation survey (pals) population consisted of all persons who answered yes to either of the long- form census questions on activity limitations. The conservative government discontinued the long-form census in. Pals was discontinued even though this was an authoritative.