LECTRIC LAW
LIBRARY'S LEXICON
Individual With A Severe Disability
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INDIVIDUAL WITH A SEVERE DISABILITY, 29 U.S.C. - An individual
with a disability who has a severe physical or mental impairment
which seriously limits one or more functional capacities
(such as mobility, communication, self-care, self-direction,
interpersonal skills, work tolerance, or work skills) in
terms of an employment outcome; whose vocational rehabilitation
can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation
services over an extended period of time; and who has one
or more physical or mental disabilities resulting from amputation,
arthritis, autism, blindness, burn injury, cancer, cerebral
palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, head injury, heart disease,
hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction,
mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular
dystrophy, musculo-skeletal disorders, neurological disorders
(including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia,
and other spinal cord conditions, sickle cell anemia, specific
learning disability, end-stage renal disease, or another
disability or combination of disabilities determined to cause
comparable substantial functional limitation.
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