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An acquired disability is not one you were born with. It occurred later in life.
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What is the difference between a congenital disability and an acquired disability?
Congenital happens before birth, acquired after.
What is an acquired disability?
An acquired disability is a physical, sensory, cognitive, or mental health condition that develops after birth, often as a result of injury, illness, or environmental factors. These disabilities are not present at birth but are acquired during one's lifetime.
What is difference between acquired and developmental disability?
An acquired disability is a disability that a person develops later in life due to illness, injury, or other external factors. A developmental disability is a disability that originates before the age of 22 and affects a person's physical, cognitive, or emotional development.
What is the difference on impact with congenital and progressive disability?
Congenital disability is impacted from birth. Progressive disability is usually an acquired disability that progressively gets worse as an individual ages
When and how John Milton acquired thi disability?
John Milton was blind and ate Priyanka doshi's head :)
What does Private Disability Insurance mean?
Most people know that Social Security will approve a disability claim for acquired disabilities, e.g. those acquired as an adult, and congenital disability which occur at birth. SSD and SSDI are publicly funded. For SSD, Adults worked and paid into Social Security before becoming disabled. For SSDI, the person need not have worked, and the amount received is often less than SSD.However, in some industries, private insurers protect when disability occurs. The disability is evaluated through that insurer (not SSA), and is paid through them, not through the Social Security Administration.
What is the difference between acquired and developmental disability?
A person is born with a developmental disability. An acquired disability is a disability that is developed, for whatever reason, after birth.
What are the main differences between the way in which an acquired and congenital disability may impact on people?
Either type of disability brings challenges. But only from the viewpoint of onset, a congenital disability is present AT birth; an acquired occurs anytime after birth, at any age. Children with congenital disabilities learn ways to compensate. They adapt quickly. They've never known anything but the disability. But when someone is 20, 30, 40 and becomes permanently disabled, they must grieve their former self while trying to accept their new limitations, but unable to fully give up the idea they will return to their former abilities. Eventually, resignation and acceptance must meet up with each other; the person has to find some middle ground in order to live with acquired disability.
What is the difference between a acqiured and congenital disability?
I would say congenital would be something one is born with or inherit. Acquired perhaps due to maybe an accident.
What benefits do you get with 100 VA disability?
Fifty to one hundred percent of your highest rank pay during your time in service, and based on the nature of the disibility and how you acquired it
How do people get intellectual disabilities?
There are two types of physical disabilities: congenital and acquired. Congenital means the person is born with it. Acquired means that sometime after the person was born, something happened that resulted in a disability.
Issues faced by people with acquired disability differs to those with develpomental disability?
Not always. Many of the issues are the same as long as disabilities themselves similar. For example someone may be mentally disabled by birth & someone could be in an accident with a head injury & they end up the same.
