Law on Persons with Disabilities 2010 of Vietnam: Types and levels of impairment

Specifically, according to Article 3 of the Law on Persons with Disabilities 2010 of Vietnam and Article 2 of Decree No. 28/2012/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, types of impairment include:

- Mobility impairment means partial or total loss of the mobility of the head, the neck, the lower or upper limbs, or the body, that restricts the dexterity.

- Hearing and speaking impairment means partial or total loss of the hearing or speaking function or both hearing and speaking functions; or the function to pronounce words and sentences clearly, leading to limited communication or information exchange in words.

- Visual impairment means partial or total loss of sight and senses of light, colors, images and objects in normal light and environment.

- Mental impairment means disorder of senses, memory, feeling, thought and act control manifested abnormal speech or acts.

- Intellectual impairment means partial or total loss of perception and mind manifested in the slowness or inability to think, to analyze objects, phenomena or to solve problems.

- Other impairments means partial or total loss of bodily functions causing difficulties in work and daily-life activities and learning not being specified in Clauses 1,2, 3, 4 and 5 Article 2 of Decree No. 28/2012/ND-CP.

Concurrently, levels of impairment are also specified as follows:

People suffering from particularly serious impairments are those whose impairments lead to total loss of their functions, self-control or make them unable to move, to dress, to keep personal hygiene and to complete other everyday tasks without other people to watch, to help and to take care of.

People suffering from serious impairments are those whose impairments lead to partial loss or deficiency of their functions, self-control or make them unable to move, to dress, to keep personal hygiene and to complete other everyday tasks without other people to watch, to help and to take care of.

People suffering from mild impairments are the disabled not falling into the cases defined above.

This is the contents specified in Article 3 of Decree No. 28/2012/ND-CP.

View more details at: The Law on Persons with Disabilities 2010 of Vietnam takes effect from January 01, 2011 and Decree No. 28/2012/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from June 01, 2012.

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