In this chapter, “person with a disability” means a person whose ability to care for himself or herself, perform manual tasks, learn, work, walk, see, hear, speak, or breathe is substantially limited because the person has:
(1) an orthopedic, visual, speech, or hearing impairment;
(2) Alzheimer’s disease;
(3) pre-senile dementia;
(4) cerebral palsy;
(5) epilepsy;
(6) muscular dystrophy;
(7) multiple sclerosis;
(8) cancer;
(9) heart disease;
(10) diabetes;
(11) an intellectual disability;
(12) autism; or
(13) mental illness.