Disabled person: construction of concept by this population

Abstract

Objective: to build the concept of disabled person. Methods: study of analysis of concept using the phases field work and statistical analysis with 120 individuals divided into three groups of 40 people with hearing, visual and motor disability. Results: there was predomination of men (68%), 18-29 years old (55%), with superior education (35%) and married/common-law married (75%). The attribute accepted was person with limitation and still able to perform activity, with a difference between groups (p = 0.018); the keyword accepted was limitation (p = 0.001); the expression was disabled person, with intergroup difference (p = 0.013). Concept of choice by group was deaf (97.51%); blind (45%) and person with visual disability (45%) and; person with physical disability (27.5%). Conclusion: attributes, keywords used in the literature and public policy were not accepted. They prefer to be called deaf; blind or visually impaired; They reject people with motor disability and wheelchair user.

Concepto de discapacidad

“…La percepción de la Discapacidad para Pagliuca et al, (2015) también era entendida por la población con limitaciones físicas como un problema generado en la sociedad, analizando la opinión de la gente sobre su discapacidad, es claro que personas con discapacidad, en particular personas con limitación auditiva, no se ven como individuos activos de la sociedad, los vocablos deficiencias, limitaciones o restricciones se alejan a de lo ideal y del lenguaje inclusivo que debemos manejar. De hecho, la discapacidad es diferente a eso; es un fenómeno definido como el grado de dificultad para relacionarse e integrarse dentro de un ambiente social, el cual definirá quien de ellos tiene discapacidad o no.…”