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www.capabilitiesinc.biz

We will strive to provide people with
differing abilities the maximum supports
needed to successfully achieve and sustain
their goals.


In The Beginning…
• Bill and Karen Blumhorst

• Opened 1997

• Accredited by CARF (Certification and Accreditation of
Rehabilitation Facilities)
www.CARF.org

• Rehabilitation Services Commission
www.RSC.OHIO.gov

• Bureau of Workman's Compensation
www.ohiobwc.com


St. Marys Office
124 S Front St.
St Marys, OH 45885
Phone: (419)394-0003
Toll Free: (877)394-0858
Fax: (419)394-2853
stmarys@capabilitiesinc.biz


Counties Served
• Allen • Marion • Van Wert
• Auglaize • Mercer • Union
• Clark • Miami • Madison
• Champaign • Montgomery • Butler
• Crawford • Morrow • Lucas
• Darke • Ottawa • Sandusky
• Greene • Preble • Seneca
• Hardin • Putnam • Clinton
• Hancock • Richland • Wyandot
• Logan • Shelby
• Lucas • Wood


What does Capabilities do?
• Assessments – vocational, computer, home-
site, community based, work adjustment, career
exploration, job shadows
• Job Seeking and Keeping Skills Training
• Job Development
• Job Coaching
• Follow Along
• Pre-Drivers Education
• On the Road Drivers Training

Who Knows Someone With a
Disability?
• Definition of a Person with a Disability
– Someone who has a physical or mental
impairment that substantially limits that person in
some major life activity, has a record of such
impairment, or is regarded as having such
impairment.


Types of Disabilities
• Mobility and Physical Impairments
• Spinal Cord Disability
• Head Injuries – Brain Disability
• Vision Disability
• Hearing Disability
• Cognitive or Learning Disabilities
• Psychological Disorders


Mobility and Physical Impairments
• Includes people with varying types of physical
disabilities including:
– Upper limb(s) disability.
– Lower limb(s) disability
• Manual dexterity.
• Disability in co-ordination with different organs of
the body.
• Disability in mobility can be either an in-born or
acquired with age problem. It could also be the
effect of a disease. People who have a broken
bone also fall into this category of disability.


Spinal Cord Disability
• Sometimes lead to lifelong disabilities
• Mostly occurs due to severe accidents
• Incomplete Injury- the messages conveyed by
the spinal cord is not completely lost
• Complete Injury- results in a total dis-
functioning of the sensory organs. In some
cases spinal cord disability can be a birth
defect.


Head Injuries – Brain Disability
• Occurs due to a brain injury
• Magnitude of the brain injury can range from
mild, moderate and severe.
• Two types of brain injuries:
– Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
– Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
• ABI is not a hereditary type defect but is the degeneration
that occurs after birth.
• The causes of such cases of injury are many and are mainly
because of external forces applied to the body parts
• TBI results in emotional dysfunctioning and behavioral
disturbance.


Vision Disability
• Hundreds of thousands of people that suffer from
minor to various serious vision disability or
impairments
• Injuries can also result into some serious
problems or diseases like blindness and ocular
trauma, to name a few.
• Some of the common vision impairment includes
scratched cornea, scratches on the
sclera, diabetes related eye conditions, dry eyes
and corneal graft.


Hearing Disability
• Hearing disabilities includes people that are completely or
partially deaf
• Deaf is the politically correct term for a person with hearing
impairment
• People who are partially deaf can often use hearing aids to
assist their hearing
• Deafness can be evident at birth or occur later in life from
several biologic causes
• Deaf people use sign language as a means of
communication
• Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world
• Sign languages are as rich and complex as any oral language


Cognitive or Learning Disabilities
• Cognitive Disabilities are kind of impairment
present in people who are suffering from
dyslexia and various other learning difficulties
• Includes speech disorders


Psychological Disorders
• Affective Disorders: Disorders of mood or feeling
states either short or long term
• Mental Health Impairment is the term used to
describe people who have experienced
psychiatric problems or illness such as:
– Personality Disorders - Defined as deeply inadequate
patterns of behavior and thought of sufficient severity
to cause significant impairment to day-to-day
activities.
– Schizophrenia: A mental disorder characterized by
disturbances of thinking, mood, and behavior.


Who Can Have a Disability?
• Anyone!
• Invisible Disabilities- Disabilities that are not
immediately apparent to others
– Estimated that 10% of people in the US have a
medical condition that is considered a type of
invisible disability


What Do People With Disabilities
Want?
• To have a job and/or participate in things
• To live with people they want in their lives
• To travel around the community
• To have friends to participate with
• These are the same wants and needs that
everyone has


People First Language
• Recognizes that someone is a person, and that
the disability is part, but not all of them
• Avoids labeling person and making them feel
like less of a person
• Examples
– Replace "disabled people" with "people with
disabilities“
– Replace "deaf people" with "people who are deaf"
or "individuals who are deaf"


Unemployment For People With
Disabilities
• Unemployment Rate for Person without a
disability
– 9.2%
• Unemployment Rate for Person with a
disability
– 73%


Personal Stories: Jamie
• Went to High School, and now we work
together
• Jamie has developmental disability- Autistic
• Jamie was always picked on at school
• Jamie now works as a janitor at Capabilities-
we talk every day he works
• Jamie remembers my childhood dog, and all
kinds of stories


Personal Stories: Richard


Personal Stories: Richard
• Met Richard at Special Olympics
• Now works at We Can Too, LLC
• Richard has mild developmental disability,
mood disorder, and depression
• Saw Richard at festival, Ignored him
• Richard now works and says hi all the time


Famous People with Disabilities
• Bruce Willis
– Speech Problems when younger (stutter)
• David Beckham
– Tourettes Syndrome (Very Severe OCD)
• Stevie Wonder
– Blindness
• Tom Cruise
– Dyslexia
• Donald Trump
– OCD (Germ phobia)


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