And from then I wanted to look not at impairment, but at prevention of impairment.

or cortical visual impairment.

Probably. It's a functional impairment.

lung impairment by 12 percent and asthma by nine percent.

This would explain your slight memory loss and logic impairment.

I mean, the functional impairment is clear.

This has visual impairment as a side effect.

Arm amputation causes a huge disability.

What drives the disability for these disorders

What drives disability for these disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and depression?

Damn, Jackson! You really have a learning disability!

That is because we are talking about disability.

If you look at disability, here as measured by the World Health Organization, something they called Disability Adjusted Life Years.

You show what we regard more as competition phenomenon than impairment.

And yet we see unconscionable levels of death, disability that could be avoided.

And interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability?

It's a place where people have the longest disability free

We see the same thing with the disability rights movement.

By 2020, depression will be 2nd leading cause of disability

An impairment of setbackground discrimination can get you into a heap of trouble.

But that person could be identified as having a learning disability.

He was a very good golfer, but he had a disability.

Society has a tendency to focus on disability rather than ability.

Posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is a chronic and devastating illness associated with high rates of disability and suicide.

For every 100 girls with a learning disability, there are 276 boys.

And you all know what it is. You don't need to have a disability to know that.

That you can have what people say is disability, but not be disabled.

If you look at disability, as measured by the World Health Organization with something they call the Disability Adjusted Life Years, it's kind of a metric that nobody would think of except an economist, except it's one way of trying to capture what is lost in terms of disability from medical causes, and as you can see, virtually 30 percent of all disability from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders, neuropsychiatric syndromes.

I have been very lucky that my disability has not been a serious handicap.

And as a teacher of yoga, he brings that experience to others across the spectrum of ability and disability, health, illness and aging.

Depression, for example, is the third leading cause of disability, alongside conditions such as diarrhea and pneumonia in children.

And it's easy for me as well to train someone who has already passed through the experience of disability.

But you can see actually they are further down this list, and that's because we're talking here about disability.

Hell, the good folks at the lab are paying me disability leave of indeterminate duration.

If it bites your arm off, you get disability for the rest of your life.

And the World Health Organization predicts by the year 2020 that depression will be the second largest cause of disability.

Could the impairment in visual integration be the manifestation of something underneath, of dynamic information processing deficiencies in autism?

But I wanted to work only and truly with business and media leadership to totally reframe disability in a way that was exciting and possible.

And, truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I've had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.

We discover that, for example, mental illnesses are amongst the leading causes of disability around the world.

And actually, I spend as much of my time in clinic dealing with the emotional adjustment of patients as with the physical disability.

In 2011, the US Veterans Administration spent about 5.5 billion on PTSD disability payments to approximately 275,000 veterans.

Except it's one way of trying to capture what is lost in terms of disability from medical causes.

We find that the number two source of disability is depression in the age group of 15 to 44.

Still, 7.6 million children die every year of preventable, treatable diseases, and 178 million kids are malnourished to the point of stunting, a horrible term which means physical and cognitive lifelong impairment.