What is Mental Disability?
The mentally disabled are persons living with limitations in two separate domains. The first domain is significantly sub-average intellectual functioning. The second domain is limitations in two or more of the ten separate adaptive skills. The ten skills are: • Communication • Self-care • Home living • Social Skills • Community use • Self-direction • Health and Safety • Functional academics • Leisure • Work KSMH efforts and resources are spent on this second domain of interventions aimed at enhancing acquisition of adaptive skills for independent living. The organization is therefore less concerned with the first domain because little can be done to uplift the intellectual domain especially for the severally and profoundly persons with mental disabilities. But for the mild and moderate persons with mental disabilities, efforts and resources are spent on both the first and the second domains. Mental disability is understood as meaning disability of a person five years of age or older th
