What do the Disability Categories Mean? | AblePlay - Play products for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

What do the Disability Categories Mean?

We have included some examples of the types of disabilities within each disability category. These lists are not all encompassing.

Physical Disabilities:
Affecting the motor systems. These can include skeletal, muscle and joint abnormalities which in turn limit an individual's ability to move, stand, sit, play, reach, etc.

Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Muscular Dystrophy (MD)
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Spina Bifida
Paraplegia
Quadriplegia
Developmental Delay

Sensory Disabilities:
Affecting the individual's ability to gather and understand information from the environment through any of the five senses.

Hearing Impairment
Visual Impairment
Sensory Processing Disorder

Communicative Disabilities:
Affecting the ability to communicate verbally due to limited, or altered comprehension and use of language.

Autism Spectrum Disorder
Speech and Language Delay
Stuttering

Cognitive Disabilities:
Affecting the individual's ability to process information, reason, remember and express emotions.

Down Syndrome (trisomy 21)
Intellectual Delays
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
Hydrocephalus
Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder
Learning Disabilities (LD)