Whats the difference between a visible disability and invisible disability?
While the answer to this question may seem quite obvious, the complexities due to the ramifications of this issue can be extremely difficult to deal with. A visible disability is one that another can see based on the disabled persons appearance and/or behavior. It is quite obvious that a person is blind and/or visually impaired when another sees that person walking down the street using a white cane. Also, it is quite obvious that a person is mobility impaired when another person observes another person using a wheelchair. It is also obvious that person is deaf when another person observes that person wearing hearing aids and is asking quite often for words or sentences to be repeated, or the person is totally unresponsive to anothers effort to communicate. However, while these observable assistive aids, appearances, demeanors and/or behavior may tell us that a person most likely is disabled; there is a lot that these observable appearances and behavior dont tell us. For example, a man
