Demand for occupational therapy has surged in recent years.

Arm amputation causes a huge disability.

What drives the disability for these disorders

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.

They collectively represent every one of 86 occupational categories and hail from over 80 countries.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In order to consider this, we first need to ask ourselves, what the true nature of our occupational roles really are

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

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.

The news continues to give us a picture where men outnumber women in nearly all occupational categories, except two students and homemakers.

I myself am a philosopher, and one of our occupational hazards is that people ask us what the meaning of life is.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You're always fighting upstream like a salmon never enough money, too much need and so there is a tendency to have an occupational depression that accompanies my work.

The World Health Organization tells us that depression is the number one disease on Earth in terms of years lived with disability.

That the change in his voice was nothing other than the onset of a real chill, an occupational illness of commercial travellers, of that he had not the slightest doubt.

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

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

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.

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 then finally, to get this out to the people in scale, we teamed up with the largest disability organization in the world, Jaipur Foot.

And I think by leveraging these sorts of technologies, we're going to change the definition of disability to in some cases be superability, or super enabling.

And I set up Kanchi, because my organization was always going to be named after my elephant, because disability is like the elephant in the room.

For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.