Basic Medical Services – services rendered to disabled patients within the
competence and
capability of DOH health facilities which include health examinations, medical/surgical
procedures, regular dental care and selected procedures, routine/special laboratory
examinations,
and ancillary procedures as required.
Cognitive Skills – refers to the ability to see, perceive, understand, and see the
relationship
between ideas and facts.
Commerce – shall be taken on mean as travel, trade, traffic, commerce,
transportation, or level
that use and build on the resources of the community, including the impaired disabled
and
handicapped persons themselves, their families, and their community as a whole.
Complete, Adequate and Integrated System of Special Education – educational
program that
caters to various types of learners with special needs from preschool to tertiary levels
and their
formal or nonformal programs that are complementary mutually reinforcing and a
comparable
standards.
Covered Entity – means an employer, employment agency, labor organization or joint
labor-,
management committee.
Customized Vehicle – a vehicle manufactured, reconstituted or reassembled to suit
the
particular user according to his personal requirements, needs or desire.
Depot – an area where facilities for storing, classifying and sorting of goods/cargoes
are
provided. It may be a part or separate from the terminal and serves as a place for
storing of the
transport facility, fueling, clearing, inspection, and repair.
Disability – shall mean (1) a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more
psychological, physiological or anatomical function of an individual or activities of such
individual; (2) a record of such an impairment; or (3) being regarded as having such an
impairment;
Disabled Gifted – persons who demonstrate superior performance capabilities in
intellectual,
creative, specific academic areas, leadership, or in the arts in spite of physical, sensory
or
psychosocial disabilities.
Disabled Persons – those suffering from restriction of different abilities, as a result of
a mental,
Physical or sensory impairment, in performing an activity in the manner or within the
range
considered normal for a human being.
Disabled Worker – means a worker whose earning capacity is impaired by mental,
physical or
sensory deficiency or injury.
Employment Agreement – means the contract of employment entered into between
the
employer and the disabled worker.
Formal Education – refers to hierarchically structured and chronologically graded
learning
organized and provided by the formal school system and for which certification is
required in
order for the learner to progress through the grades or moved higher level (P.B. 232 –
Education
Act 1982)
Fits/Seizures – a neurologic condition characterized by sudden loss of consciousness
coupled
with sudden uncontrolled movements.