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Definition

A label set representing categories of disability group. 

Disability groups constitute a broad categorisation of disabilities in terms of underlying health condition, impairment, activity limitations, participation restrictions, environmental factors and support needs.

Representation

Data Type String
Format A(7)[AAAA]
Maximum character length 11

Values

Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values LEARNING Intellectual learning
PSYCHIATRIC Psychiatric
SENSORY Sensory/speech
PHYSICAL Physical/diverse
Supplementary Values NOTSTATED Not stated/Inadequately described

Comments

Intellectual learning: associated with impairment of intellectual functions which limit a range of daily activities and restrict participation in a range of life areas, for example, but not limited to; dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia.

Psychiatric: associated with clinically recognisable symptoms and behaviour patterns frequently associated with distress that may impair personal functioning in normal social activity, for example, but not limited to; Asperger syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, behavioural disorders, bipolar, depression, eating disorders, epilepsy, manias, phobias, schizophrenia, somnias. 

Sensory/speech: including vision disability (blindness, vision impairment); hearing disability (deafness, hearing impairment that cause severe restrictions in communication); deaf-blind (dual sensory impairments causing severe restrictions in communication); speech disability (speech loss, impairment which causes severe restrictions in communication). 

Physical/diverse: associated with the presence of an impairment, which may have diverse effects within and among individuals, including effects on physical activities such as mobility. This grouping includes physical disability, for example; paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, motor neurone disease, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, absence or deformities of limbs, acquired brain injury, neurological disability (including epilepsy, dementias, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease). 

References

https://dex.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2019-11/d19-891380v6-be-published-data.pdf

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Data Elements implementing this Value Domain 1