Meaning & use
habilitation
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The process of helping a person, especially a child with a disability, develop skills and abilities they have not previously had.
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The clinic offers habilitation services to help children with developmental delays build daily living skills.
Unlike rehabilitation, habilitation focuses on gaining new skills rather than restoring lost ones.
A note on using this word
Frequently confused with 'rehabilitation'; habilitation is for building skills someone never had, while rehabilitation restores skills that were lost, often after injury or illness.
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