Response to Text: Disability in the Paralympics

 1. What are the six different disability groups in the Paralympics?

→The Paralympic Movement offers sport opportunities for athletes with physical, visual and intellectual impairments and these can be divided into 10 eligible impairment types which must be permanent in nature.

2.  What does it mean if a body part is amputated?

→Topic Overview. Amputation is the removal of a body part. This can be done by a doctor in a hospital setting, such as when a foot must be amputated because of diabetes

3. What disability doesn’t let you have control of your muscles?

→Because of how CP affects the brain, a person might not be able to walk, talk, eat, or move the way most people do. CP affects a person's muscle tone and ability to coordinate body movements. People with CP have trouble controlling their muscles.

4. True or False: Intellectual Disability is when your brain and thoughts struggle in only one way.

→it is true

5. What does it mean to be paralyzed?

→complete or partial loss of function especially when involving the motion or sensation in a part of the body. 2 : loss of the ability to move. 3 : a state of powerlessness or incapacity to act.

6. What does it mean if you have vision impairment?

→Visual impairment is a term experts use to describe any kind of vision loss, whether it's someone who cannot see at all or someone who has partial vision loss. Some people are completely blind, but many others have what's called legal blindness.