Famous People with Disabilities

List of famous and well known people including actors, celebrities, politicians and many other people with disabilities who made a difference to the world.
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A mood disorder is a condition whereby the prevailing emotional mood is distorted or inappropriate to the circumstances.
The exact cause of Tourette's is unknown, but it is well established that both genetic and environmental factors are involved.
Spina bifida falls into three categories: spina bifida occulta, spina bifida cystica, and meningocele.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious diseases that cause physical disability in human development.
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures.
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that effects many people, it manifests primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling.
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) A psychiatric disorder manifested in a variety of forms, most commonly characterized by a persons obsession to perform a particular task or set of tasks.
Dementia is the steady progressive decline in cognitive functions due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from the normal human aging process.
Hearing Impairment. A hearing loss is a full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. Hearing loss can be inherited If a family has a dominant gene for deafness.
Speech differences Stuttering is generally not a problem with the physical production of speech sounds or putting thoughts into words. Stuttering has no bearing on intelligence.
Spinal polio is the most common resulting from viral invasion of the motor neurons of the anterior horn cells.
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs motor skills and speech.
Well known people who use wheelchairs since birth and later in life.
Sight Impaired is vision loss that constitutes a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from disease, trauma, or a congenital or degenerative condition that cannot be corrected.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) a debilitating disease affecting the brain and spinal cord. No one knows what causes MS.
Asthma is a chronic condition involving the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive amounts of mucus, often in response to one or more triggers.
People with Asperger’s Syndrome are often described, as having social skills deficits, reluctance to listen, difficulty understanding social give and take, and other core characteristics.
Famous people who are amputees. Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma or surgery. A prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part.
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