CPACC Exam - Types of Disabilities Questions And Answers | 100% Correct Answers | 2024 Updated Quiz

Color-blindness - a variety of disorders marked by inability to distinguish some or all colors Protanopia/protanomaly and deuteranopia/deuteranomaly - red-green color blindness Tritanopia/Tritanomaly - blue-yellow color blindness Monochromacy (Achromatopsia) - black-and-white vision Color-blindness - Demographics 8% of males, 0.4% of females Blindness - Fully or nearly complete vision loss. Blindness - Demographics: 0.5%; 90% low income, and 82% aged 50+ Low vision - Impairs a person's vision to the point that corrective lenses cannot restore full visual acuity; threshold for classification designated as a corrected visual acuity of no better than 20/40 or 20/60. AT for low vision - Screen magnifiers, screen readers, increase contrast, increase size of mouse pointer and keyboard caret. Low vision - Demographics: 3.5%; 90% in low income settings Deafness and hard-of-hearing - total or near total loss of hearing; and partially impaired hearing in one or both earsAT for deafblindness - Transcripts for video or audio converted to Braille, tactile sign language interpretation. AT for Deafness and hard-of-hearing - Hearing aids, cochlear implants, captions for videos, transcripts for video or audio, sign language interpretation Deafness and hard of hearing - Demographics: About 2% of adults aged 45 to 54 have disabling limitations from this impairment. This percentage increases to 8.5% for adults between 55 and 64, 25% for adults between 65 and 74, and 50% for adults 75 and older. Deafblindness - Full or partial visual and full or partial aural loss Mobility disabilities - Are characterized by loss of movement, may be caused by injury or disease. Dyspraxia - Difficulty with planing movements, especially complex or new movements Dysgraphia - A learning disability that involves difficulty in handwriting. dyslexia - impairment of the ability to read Dyscalculia - unusual difficulty with math, probably originating from a distinct part of the brain AT for mobility disabilities - Modified inputs (i.e., mouses and keyboards), dictation software, specialized or alternate inputs (i.e., mouthstick, custom inputs) Cognitive Disabilities - disabilities that affects self-help skills and the way the brain processes info, caused by a condition or injury Intellectual disability - significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills; originates before the age of 18.Intellectual functioning - general mental capacity, such as learning, reasoning, problem solving, and so on Adaptive behavior - collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that are learned and performed by people in their everyday lives ADHD - an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development