Passing among persons with disabilities is a complex situation more commonly addressed via the parallel terms visible and invisible disabilities.
A particular disabled person may often have both visible and invisible disabilities.
She showcases her webbed hands as the series probes public attitudes toward persons with highly visible disabilities.
Kennard is the only justice with a visible physical disability; she has an artificial leg.
But this is the first time we've had a regular adult character with a visible disability played by an actor with a disability.
Lionel12 suggests things have been sorted for those of us with visible disabilities.
In identifying the needs of the disabled, we must avoid thinking solely of those with the most visible disabilities.
On one hand, people with visible disabilities are discriminated against because they appear defective, as the medical model suggests.
People with disabilities, visible or not, face social discrimination in employment practices.
For individuals with more visible disabilities, there are the single-handed, headstick, and expanded models.