Definition of a Disability -
HREOC’s definition

There are many different kinds of disability and a wide variety of situations people experience.

• The disability may be permanent or temporary.
  
• It may exist from birth or be acquired later in life.
  
• A person may have one disability or a number of disabilities.
  
• A person may be treated as having a disability when in fact he or she does not.
  
• A person’s disability may be apparent, such as loss of a limb; or hidden, such as epilepsy or a depressive illness.
  
• Disability may be more or less severe in its impact.
  
• People with the same disability are as likely as anyone else to have different abilities.