Disability and Identity

Disability and Identity

1. Master Status : the status of greatest importance in a particular person's life.

2. Impaired : is some abnormal functioning of the body or mind, either than one is born with or which arises from injury or disease.

   • It only becomes a disability when it prevents people from carrying out normal day to day activities.

3. Disabled : a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a persons ability to carry out normal day to day activities.