Description of Mental Disabilities
Mental Disability is a clinical condition of the body or mind that reduces the ability to do certain activities and/or interact with the world, providing a lot of activity limitations and participation restrictions. The brain contains a variety of functions that can cause different actions in our world. Still, the brain can function incorrectly and cause mental illness, but it is taught to be otherwise.
Inherited traits. Mental illnesses are common in people whose family members have had it, increasing the chance of obtaining them. Life choice also diminishes or increases.
Environmental exposures. A very stressful environment, inflammatory conditions, and other conditions can affect our bodies when exposed to them.
Brain chemistry. Chemicals called neurotransmitters change people's mood and move in the brain and body.
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Figure 1. Chaotic vs. Calm Brain [2]
Current standards
Motion disabilities are not curable, but fortunately, they can help it be controlled by treatments, making people live everyday lives. Patients with disabilities and these problems can use technology to improve their lives and support them. These types of technologies can be separated into these categories:
Assistive technologies: Hearing amplifiers, text-to-speech systems, motorized mobility chairs, voice-output tools, and tactile reading displays. These are types of solutions that are made to improve the experience of these patients.
Adaptive technology: Visual enlarging tools, Audio enhancement devices, and customized input keyboards. These technologies modify products to make them more productive and improve their usability.
Inclusive technology: Technologies such as Siri and Alexa are primarily technologies, such as apps and devices, that help to improve the lives of disabled patients. Other examples are Roombas, automatic devices, and gadgets.[8]
Tools like the ones mentioned may seem pretty promising, but some problems are still involved, mainly because of the lack of learning how to use these technologies. In addition, these solutions always involve many problems, even if one does not like them.
Social media and online resources create many distractions for our society. One of those distractions is that it takes away an important subject from users.
There may be an excessive use of these types of technologies on people. This can lead to a lack of control from users and create adverse effects on people’s mental health and their surroundings.
Skills that may require the presence of people may be lost in these types of technologies. For example, public speaking, socializing, communicating, and expressing ideas are lost with technology.
In addition, the digital world offers us a significant amount of information, and some of the information present is useful and validated. Still, vast amounts of information are fake or fabricated, which may lead to misinformation and false ideas.
The digital world is just as dangerous as the real world. However, the digital world has a disadvantage that they can steal your personal information. As many of us leave and expose our personal information online, the likelihood of it being stolen or taken increases.
Finally, the digital world also increases the amount of cyberbullying as social media and the internet can show a different perspective of things.
Figure 4. Virtual reality and innovation [10]
Figure 5. Digital learning and technology [11]
Figure 6. Typing on a laptop [12]
Limitations
There are several challenges for patients in the United States with disabilities. Some include restricted access to resources, insufficient educational systems, economic hardship, and effects on the quality of lives of patients. In addition, it brings many accessibility challenges, including intending healthcare equipment that covers their needs, finding employment, and quality education.
Additionally, in social terms, people with disabilities may receive many stereotypes, and others may have different behaviors with them.
In addition, there is less employment available for people with disabilities. Thus having a significant amount of unemployment, financial disabilities, and no mental balance.
Video 2. Range of Motion on VA disability C & P Exam - What vets need to know [13]
Video 3. 10 Most Common VA Disabilities Among Veterans [14]
Demographics
In 2021, there were 2.8 million kids getting an education for their unique needs.
Boys have more than 60% of the amount of kids getting learning disabilities.
Many people think that children with learning disabilities attend a different school, but actually, 70% attend regular classes.
The amount of children with learning disabilities who drop out of high school is 3 times more than regular kids.
The three most common disabilities found in American kids are ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia.
Adults who suffer from learning disabilities hide it from their bosses 86% of the time.
The amount of kids with learning disabilities who suffer from learning disabilities are 33% more likely to be bullied in school.
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Figure 3.1 Proportion of adolescents in school not achieving minimum proficiency levels.
Adapted from: UNESCO, “g20-learning-blog-figure1.png | UNESCO UIS,” Unesco.org, 2025. https://uis.unesco.org/en/files/g20-learning-blog-figure1-png (accessed Jan. 10, 2025).
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Figure 3.2. Students ages 3–21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Adapted from : “Students with disabilities,” National Center for Education Statistics, May 2024. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgg/students-with-disabilities
Disabilities we are addressing
To use our invention to its fullest potential, we must address three of the most important movements and learning disabilities on kids, and elders. This could separate into:
Motion disabilities in kids: Are also called Pediatric movement disorders, and negatively influences the quality of children’s movements, this is a type of neurological condition. These are called stereotypies, which can exist in their own or with another disorder.
Post-learning disabilities in elders: People are more likely to get dementia if they have learning disabilities. Probably even faster and in fewer-age time.
Learning disabilities in kids is a name for learning probes. The factor that affects this is how each kid can learn and connect with the topics they are learning, which often leads to wrongful information.
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Figure 2. Child using a tablet [5]