Functional – Relating directly to everybody needs and interests;
– Concerned with application in activity;
– Practical;
– Performing or able to perform its regular function
Handicap – refers to disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment
or a
disability, that limits or prevents the function or activity, that is considered normal given
the age
and sex of the individual.
Handicapped – a disadvantaged for a given individual, resulting from an impairment
or a
disability, that limits or prevents the function or activity, that is considered normal given
the age
and sex of the handicapped individual.
Impairment – is any loss, diminution or aberration of psychological, physiological, or
anatomical structure or function.
Income Producing Projects or Homework Schemes – means the work and services
that a
disabled person can adequately and preferentially do or provide in sheltered workshops
or in
about the disabled persons homes that will provide them the opportunity to earn a living
and
acquire a working capacity required in open industry.
Independent Living – the degree to which a disabled person is able to maintain
himself
independently in the community and in gainful employment.
Indigent – a disabled person whose level of income falls below the poverty threshold.
Learner with Special Needs – a person who differs significantly from the average
learner in (a)
mental characteristics; (b) sensory abilities; (c) neuromuscular or physical
characteristics; (d)
psychosocial characteristics; or has multiple handicaps or has chronic illness; and or
has a
developmental lag to such an extent that he requires modified or specialized instruction
and
services in order to develop to his maximum capability.
Learning Disabled – persons who, although normal in sensory, emotional and
intellectual
abilities, exhibit disorders in perception, listening, thinking, reading, writing, spelling, and
arithmetic.
Learning Institution (LI) – any educational institution managed or owned by the
government, a
private individual, a corporation or any legal entity, which caters to children, youth and
adults
with special needs. A learning institution may be day or residential in nature.
Local Government Unit – refers to the municipality, city, and province or to any
political
subdivision of the national government as defined by law.
Marginalized Disabled Persons – refer to disabled persons who lack access to
rehabilitative
services and opportunities to be able to participate fully in socio-economic activities and
who
have no means of livelihood or whose incomes fall below the poverty threshold.
Mental Disability – disability resulting from organic brain syndromes (example: mental
retardation, acquired lesions of the central nervous system, demenia) and mental
illnesses
(psychotic and non-psychotic disorders).
Multi-handicapped – persons with more than one disability such as those with mental
retardation-blindness mental retardation-orthopedic handicap, deafness-blindness and
others.
Neglected – a neglected disabled person is one whose basic needs have been
deliberately