This is not an exhaustive list of qualifying disabilities by any means, but Canadians with the following conditions have successfully been approved for the Disability Tax Credit and received tax benefits:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Addiction (alcohol, drug, gambling, internet, prescription medications, sexual, substance abuse, etc.)
- Addison’s Disease
- Agoraphobia
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amputation
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)/Lou Gehrig’s Disease
- Angina
- Ankle Surgery
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Asperger Syndrome
- Asthma
- Ataxia
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
- Autism
- Autoimmune Disorders
- Back Injury
- Behçet’s Disease
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bladder Disorder
- Blindness
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Bowel Disorder
- Brain Injury
- Brain Tumour
- Broken Bone(s)
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Cancer
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Cavus Foot
- Celiac Disease
- Cerebral Haemorrhage
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)
- Chemical Sensitivities
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD)
- Chromosome Anomaly
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
- Chronic Inflammatory
- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Chronic Pain
- Cognitive Impairment
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
- Conduct Disorder
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
- Congenital Heart Defect
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Cri Du Chat Syndrome
- Crohn’s Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- De Vivo Disease
- Deafness
- Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD)
- Dementia
- Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
- Depression
- Developmental Delays
- Dexterity issues
- Diabetes (Type 1)
- Diabetes (Type 2)
- Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Dressing Impairment
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Eating disorders
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Electrocution
- Elimination (Impairment in bowel or bladder functions)
- Emphysema
- Epilepsy
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Failed Back Syndrome (FBS)
- Feeding Impairment
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
- Fibromyalgia (FM)
- Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome
- Foot Ulcers
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Fused Wrist
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gender Identity Disorder (GID)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Glaucoma
- Global Developmental Delay (GDD)
- Graves’ Disease
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
- Hearing Loss
- Heart Attack
- Heart Defect
- Heart Disease
- Hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
- Herniated Disc(s)
- High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Hip injury/pain
- Hip Replacement
- Hirschsprung’s Disease
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Huntington’s Disease
- Hypermobility Syndrome
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Ileostomy
- Injured Hip
- Intellectual Disability
- Interstitial Cystitis (IC) / Bladder Pain Syndrome (BPS)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Juvenile Rheumatoid / Idiopathic Arthritis
- Knee injury/pain
- Knee replacement
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (LKS)
- Learning Disabilities
- Lumbar Disc Disease
- Lupus
- Mental Illness
- Microcephaly
- Migraines
- Mood Disorder
- Motor Vehicle Accident
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Muscular Dystrophy (MD)
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Narcolepsy
- Nerve Damage
- Obesity
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Osteoarthritis (OA)
- Osteoporosis
- Paralysis
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Patau Syndrome
- Personality Disorder
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)
- Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Post-Polio Syndrome
- Retinopathy (diabetic, hypertensive, solar)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Schizophrenia
- Scoliosis
- Selective Mutism (SM)
- Sjogren’s Syndrome
- Sleeping Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Spina Bifida
- Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
- Spinal Stenosis
- Sturge-Weber Sydrome
- Stuttering
- Swallowing Disorders
- Syringomyelia
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMD)
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS)
- Tourette Syndrome
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN)
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Turner Syndrome
- Ulcerative Colitis (UC)
- Usher Syndrome
- Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL)
- Walking Impairment
- Wegener’s Granulomatosis
- West Nile Virus (WNV)
- West Syndrome
- Wilms’ Tumor
- Wilson Disease
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