disability
Definition
Medically determinable impairment of body or mind that restricts, or causes loss of, a person's functional ability to carry on his or her normal activities. Disabilities are commonly measured by the extent to which the disabled person is unable to engage in gainful employment on a continuing basis. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) describes a disability as a “Physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities.” It considers a major life activity as the one that an average person can perform with little or no difficulty, such as seeing, speaking, hearing, walking, traveling, working, and sleeping. See also handicap.
disability is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law, HR, Teams, & Training and Material & Occupational Safety subjects.
disability appears in the definitions of the following terms:
speech recognition,
personal exemptions,
discrimination,
workforce diversity,
assistive technology,
guardian,
handicap,
disparate treatment,
subrogation clause,
parens patriae
and
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