We have made it OK to outcast individuals who are impaired when their impairments do not restrict their abilities.
Thus, their impairments may be reflecting impaired explicit, not implicit learning.
Impaired individuals who had been "conscientized" to think of their impairments as disabilities constructed by societal practices and norms began to develop a disability pride.
However, they often lack musical training and their impairments limit their interactions with musical instruments.
The committee often reclassifies athletes and places them into different competition classes, depending on the severity of their impairments.
Studies of disability culture indicate that people who have impairments often define themselves not by their impairments but in relation to disablement in cultural contexts.
It also offers the possibility of changing the lives of disabled people, by helping them overcome or cope with their impairments.
The serially decorated equestrian Lee Pearson said as much when, ahead of these Games, he called on his fellow Paralympians and Games organisers to be less reticent about their impairments.
The work calls gently for the public to consider these "unintended performers", those who find themselves the centre of attention whatever they do, purely because of their impairments.
For the most part, patients are simply taught new strategies for dealing with their impairments, such as carrying notepads to help them remember important tasks or designating specific spots for their keys.
Technology can be used either to adapt the environment so that, it is more accommodating for people with physical, cognitive, sensory impairments, or to equip individuals with means to compensate for their impairments.
