blindness
/ˈbɫaɪndnəs/
nounthe condition or state of being completely or partially unable to see
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1. He jokes about my deafness and I joke about his blindness.
2. Some NTDs cause blindness as the result of awful eye infections.
3. Magicians also prey on our change blindness, the psychological phenomenon in which we fail to notice changes in our environment.
4. Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
5. No, face blindness!
locked-in syndrome
/lˈɑːktɪn sˈɪndɹoʊm/
nouna rare neurological condition in which a person is unable to move or speak, but retains full awareness and mental alertness
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deafness
/ˈdɛfnəs/
nounthe state or condition of being totally or partially unable to hear
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1. He jokes about my deafness and I joke about his blindness.
2. So, deafness is a spectrum.
3. Again, deafness is a spectrum.
4. They used their deafness to their advantage.
5. In these avenues, deafness is our only barricade.
autism spectrum disorder
/ˈɔːtɪzəm spˈɛktɹəm dɪsˈoːɹdɚ/
nouna complex developmental disorder stigmatized by persistent challenges with social communication and interaction or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior
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1. The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder has also increased over the past few decades.
2. You can see negative symptoms with social anxiety, autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disorders.
3. Sometimes autism spectrum disorder can look very much like schizoid personality.
4. Excessive synapses are observed in autism spectrum disorders, and epilepsy.
5. Many children with autism spectrum disorders will present a wide spectrum of symptoms and behaviors.
disability
/ˌdɪsəˈbɪɫɪti/, /dɪsəˈbɪɫɪtiz/
nouna physical or mental condition that prevents a person from using some part of their body completely or learning something easily
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1. Insulting disabilities.
2. Many people have invisible disabilities.
3. None of whom had disabilities.
4. Disability depends on perspective.
5. Disability is rarely the problem.
amputation
/ˌæmpjəˈteɪʃən/
nounsurgical removal of a limb or a part of it
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1. - Amputation is safer. -
2. The treatment for this is amputation.
3. Arm amputation causes a huge disability.
4. One amputation costs us five bucks.
5. One amputation costs us five bucks.
spina bifida
/spˈiːnə baɪfˈɪdə/
nouna not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis
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1. I have a friend with Spina Bifida that has used one and really, really likes it.
2. These types of tails usually form as a birth defect, a deformity of the spine called spina bifida.
3. Alright the third type and finaly type is spina bifida occulta, and this is the most common and most mild form of spina bifida.
4. - I was born with Spina Bifida.
5. I would go with spina bifida because I know a lot of people with cerebral palsy, and I wanna say spina bifida to be more out there.
cerebral palsy
/sɚɹˈiːbɹəl pˈɔːlzi/
nouna loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth
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1. Samuel because of his Cerebral Palsy, Connolly because he'd developed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and had lost his ability to speak.
2. He had Cerebral Palsy, a disorder caused by damage to his brain before birth. Doctors told Jong-rak and his wife that their son would not live long.
3. My sister, LISA, was born with something like Cerebral Palsy.
4. My sister lisa was born with something like Cerebral Palsy.
5. If there was any disability I've been jealous of, it's Cerebral Palsy.
epilepsy
/ˈɛpəˌɫɛpsi/
nouna central nervous system disorder that causes sudden, unprovoked, and recurrent seizures
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1. So, epilepsy is another term for seizure disorder.
2. "May cause epilepsy or seizures."
3. It is epilepsy.
4. So epilepsy patients sometimes need the electrical activity in their brain monitoring.
5. His best friend Anna has epilepsy.
echolalia
/ˌɛkəlˈeɪliə/
nounmeaningless repetition or echoing of vocalizations made by another person, as a result of mental disorder
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1. They could be repetitions of words that other people say, or sounds from nearby, known as echolalia.
2. he didn't talk until he was like almost 5 he was just really do like echolalia like just repeat what other people say or if he wanted something he didn't care so he got frustrated then you might get frustrated I'm just trying to figure out
3. Complex verbal tics can include echolalia, which is repeating the last word or phrase that they heard from others, palilalia, which is a repetition of a person’s own words or phrases, or coprolalia, which is saying inappropriate words or obscenities.
4. I want to show you a clip from a piece called "Echolalia."
aphantasia
/ɐfɐntˈeɪʒə/
nouna condition where an individual lacks the ability to visualize or mentally create images in their mind's eye
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1. But aphantasia is more than just a different way of experiencing the world.
2. Broadly-speaking, the scientific community first really learned about aphantasia after a man had what seemed like a small stroke and lost his ability to create visual imagery.
3. As scientists studied these folks, they found that aphantasia falls on a spectrum.
4. The researchers found that people with aphantasia also put more text on the drawings, and that they described storing the pictures as words and descriptions.
5. But people with aphantasia don’t respond that way.
dyslexia
/dɪˈsɫɛksiə/
nouna specific neurobiological disorder marked by difficulty reading and spelling in individuals with otherwise unaffected intelligence
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1. 12 children had dyslexia, and 22 had typical reading skills.
2. These people, these famous people, have all dyslexia.
3. So persons with dyslexia have the exact same rights.
4. My dyslexia is so bad today.
5. What does dyslexia mean?
dwarfism
/ˈdwɔɹfɪzəm/
nouna genetic abnormality resulting in short stature
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1. That isolation led to small versions of large animals, or insular dwarfism, and large versions of small animals, or insular gigantism, on islands around the Mediterranean.
2. This phenomenon is known as insular dwarfism.
3. tiny lizard might actually be the result of /double/ island dwarfism.
4. Island dwarfism may have produced tiny lizards, but island gigantism is also a thing.
5. So I have a metatropic dwarfism.
hard of hearing
/hˈɑːɹd ʌv hˈɪɹɪŋ/
phraseunable to hear properly
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1. I learned a hard lesson today about the judgment and discrimination and retaliation against people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
2. You're hard of hearing?
3. I am hard of hearing.
4. I am hard of hearing.
5. I'm hard of hearing.
impairment
/ˌɪmˈpɛɹmənt/
nouna state or condition in which a part of one's body or brain does not work properly
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1. Studies also show a similar impairment of brain regions and gamblers to people with drug dependence.
2. First, individuals have to show impairments in regulating their own behavior.
3. No diffusion impairment as we say.
4. In addition, its deficiency can create mild cognitive impairment.
5. You have visual impairment.
learning disability
/lˈɜːnɪŋ dˌɪsɐbˈɪləɾi/
nouna disorder that affects the ability to comprehend or process information, particularly when not associated with physical disability
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1. We were seeing learning disabilities, issues around executive function, the processing of language.
2. They also treat children with learning disabilities.
3. I have a learning disability.
4. On the far end of the spectrum are children with severe learning disabilities.
5. Sometimes learning disabilities in children is not so obvious.
paraplegia
/ˌpɛɹəˈpɫidʒiə/
nouna type of paralysis that affects the legs and the lower body as the result of spinal cord damage
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1. Like what's the world rankings of paraplegia?
2. But recent research shows that neurotechnology delivering electrical stimulation directly to the spinal cord may enable people with paraplegia to walk again.
3. People with spinal cord injuries, like paraplegias, quadriplegias, will often develop a very, very sensitive area right above the level of their injury, wherever that is.
4. Even people with disabilities, like paraplegia, can swim.
quadriplegia
/kwˌɑːdɹɪplˈiːdʒə/
nouna condition in which someone is paralyzed from neck down
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1. We're talking about broken bones, herniated discs, and even quadriplegia.
2. Before, her quadriplegia seemed to be just a discussion starter for her message.
3. Learning disabilities, not covered, quadriplegia, not covered.
4. People with spinal cord injuries, like paraplegias, quadriplegias, will often develop a very, very sensitive area right above the level of their injury, wherever that is.
longsightedness
/lˈɑːŋsaɪɾᵻdnəs/
nounthe condition of being incapable of clearly seeing objects that are near to one
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