[Ohio-talk] sensory impairments

[Kaiti Shelton]

As a clinician I completely agree with this. Some of my music therapy textbooks categorize visual impairment as sensory rather than physical, but they are in the minority. One could argue that it is physical in the sense that it hinders mobility, but deafness can have effects on mobility as well. 

I'm just curious, though. If paralysis is a disorder where you can't feel and do not have a sense of touch in a particular part of your body, would paralysis be more of a sensory impairment than a physical one as well? Great stuff to think about.

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> On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Robert Spangler via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Sense - any system that consists of a group of sensory cell types that
> respond to a specific physical phenomenon and that corresponds to a
> particular group of regions within the brain where the signals are received
> and interpreted.
> -- Sounds a lot like sight to me!
> 
> The source from which I obtained this information argues that there are at
> least nine senses and maybe even more.  So, since sight is one of the senses
> (in fact, possibly two senses), it then follows that we have a sensory
> disability.
> 
> Source:
> http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/humans-have-a-lot-more-than-
> five-senses/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marianne
> Denning via Ohio-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 10:35 AM
> To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Marianne Denning <marianne at denningweb.com>
> Subject: [Ohio-talk] sensory impairments
> 
> I have been thinking about this for awhile and wanted to discuss it on this
> list.  Blind people are grouped in with people who have physical
> disabilities.  Many blind people can have a physical disability but
> blindness itself is not a physical disability.  It is a sensory disability.
> The 2 main groups who have sensory impairments are the deaf and the blind.
> I know the NFB uses the term blind and that is great but could we also
> categorize it as a sensory impairment?  I would like to hear other people's
> thoughts.
> 
> --
> Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
> Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
> (513) 607-6053
> 
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