Is there a symbol for disability?

It's that symbol. That symbol isn't restricted to only those who use a wheelchair, it's for those who are legally disabled and are less able or unable to function properly in an everyday situation.

You know, you could use Google instead of clogging up Y! Answers with another question. Sorry, but you should try Google first. Here is a website with an assortment of disability symbols you could put on a t-shirt or handbag.: http://www.graphicartistsguild.org/resources/disab...

There is no sign for international disabilities (meaning all disabilities).

No. That's the short answer to your question, having researched it myself. I'm one of those people who isn't in a wheelchair, yet I'm disabled, so I have to drive around with a stupid wheelchair symbol on my license plates or a window hanger. Japan uses some goofy looking 'dying leaf' to indicate older drivers who are apparently expected to pose dangers due to their age.

In my case, my disability (at least for the parking issue and thus the license plates) involves extensive arthritis and nerve damage from Lyme Disease which at times makes walking extremely painful. As a side-note, the idiots who layout many parking lots seem to think that 'handicapped' only means wheelchair users as well, because they'll put a cutout in the curb 150 feet from the entrance to a building and designate handicapped parking spaces on either side of the cutout, while spaces 15-25 feet away from the door are used by whoever can grab them first. This is really stupid in Virginia at least, because the medical form a doctor must submit in order to be issued a handicapped plate specifically requires the M.D. to state that the patient cannot 'walk' a certain distance, I believe 50 feet, without assistance.

Your question does bring up an important issue, perhaps more important than you even realize. In my case, I was determined to be disabled (i.e. unable to hold a job of any kind) several years before I was 'crippled' because of cognitive deficits and other neurological effects of Lyme Disease. Basically that's a nice way of saying brain damage, although my wife hates to hear me use that phrase. In addition to dealing with constant fatigue, I can no longer multitask, have difficulty with word recall, short term memory, and focusing on a task, plus I am unusually sensitive to light and background noises and am easily irritated to boot. On the physical side, my brain can no longer regulate my body temperature or cardiac functions consistently, so I am easily overheated, tend to high blood pressure, and my resting pulse is sometimes above 100. Yet when people meet me, or see me after a long absence, they almost always tell me how great I look, and that they're glad I'm doing 'better'. So when they see me climb into my car with the handicapped plates when I'm leaving, they're no doubt puzzled by the seeming incongruity.

I'm sure people with MS, which involves brain lesions very similar to mine and can include long periods of seemingly good health interspersed with periods of being unable to stand, walk, or even feed oneself, receive similar reactions when people encounter them during a remission. Likewise, persons, who are blind, deaf, or otherwise disabled but don't require a wheelchair have no symbol to quickly convey their need for accommodation in a manner not at all aided by a wheelchair. But coming up with an easily recognized icon to cover the full range of disabilities seems a nearly impossible task.

My personal suggestion, suitable only for English speaking countries, would be a blue triangle with a bold white H, with a red exclamation mark superimposed on the H. This would indicate that the person is handicapped in some way (the H could stand for Handicapped or HELP needed) and could use some extra assistance as indicated by the exclamation mark. This would put some of the responsibility of explaining the type of assistance needed in the hands of the disabled person, while the responsibility for accommodating those needs as discretely and simply as possible on the staff at the business or facility being visited.

I realize this is not much help, but wish you luck in developing a simple way of communicating your message, especially since disabled can mean many things besides being paraplegic.

IFirstly it doesnt ust symbolise people in wheelchairs.Instead of drawing a deaf person, a person with IBS, one with MS, one with diabetes one who's blind and every other disability they can think of, they've decided the wheelchair icon will be an appropriate universal symbol for all saves all the confusion you know?

What disability symbol would you prefer? one that specifies only YOUR disability perhaps?

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This one is pretty cool: http://cupe.ca/updir/images/display/disability-log...

It has a lot of disabilities in it.