Serving Students With Disabilities at NJCU - New Jersey City ...
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Definition of Disability in the Americans with<br />
<strong>Disabilities</strong> Act (ADA)<br />
• Mental or Physical Condition<br />
• Substantial Limit<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
▫ Significantly restricted as to the condition, manner, or<br />
dur<strong>at</strong>ion compared to the condition, manner, or dur<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
under which the average person in the general popul<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
can perform th<strong>at</strong> same major life activity.<br />
• Major Life Activity<br />
▫ Major life activities include but are not limited to: caring for<br />
oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, e<strong>at</strong>ing,<br />
sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking,<br />
bre<strong>at</strong>hing, learning, reading, concentr<strong>at</strong>ing, thinking,<br />
communic<strong>at</strong>ing and working.
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