This paper relates to the issues dealing with the identification and terminology of intellectual disability students, and the issues regarding classification and definition of intellectual disability students. What some of the viewpoints of teachers and the impact of characteristics on curricular needs, learning, and social attitudes for students with intellectual disabilities. If we ask a school teacher, psychologist, or parent with a child of ID what the definition was for intellectual disability
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AAID Autism Multiple Disorders Rose Francis November 27, 2012 SPE 226 There are many different kinds of developmental disabilities. The American Association On Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities create an outline of what is to be considered an intellectual disability. Their intellect has to considerably limit their ability to properly express the appropriate social behavior while also limiting their adaptive skills within the community and interaction with others. The disability
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Developmental disabilities are mental and/or physical impairments that are diagnosed around birth or within the adolescent years. Four classification methods have been developed to help understand the disability. You must first be able to know the severity of the condition. Mild would be considered the highest and profound would be the lowest. Then, you would look at the educability of the student. This is according to how well they are expected to achieve in a classroom. Medical Descriptors
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I’ve seen quite a few friends sharing it in their timeline but paid little attention. Initially, I thought it's just another movie bordering from lame to boring kind - that made me skeptical to watch. Until a time when a brother in Singles For Christ shared it in his timeline that my interest heightened. So, I clicked the link and started watching. Society may not always have our best interests at heart. Laws and regulations are tangled with bureaucracy and riddled with a rigidity that often
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In my essay you will learn about Jamaican and Haitian culture and their outlooks on disability. Laster on you will see the comparisons between those two cultures and the American culture. I selected the Jamaican culture because it has always been a dream of mine to visit Jamaica. I selected Haiti because I am not well educated on their culture. In that Jamaican cultural concepts that influence disability originate from their religious beliefs that are related to Christianity and Afro- Christian
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Alex Weaver Section 001 CSD 230 Disability Paper For my paper I watched the movie radio. Radio is based on a true story about a young man “Radio”, who had a mental handicap, who struggled to communicate and had never had a formal education. The film is set during the 70’s, so not many people know how to deal with a mentally handicapped person. Radio pushes a shopping cart around town while watching the high school football practice. One day after practice a couple of the players tie radio
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Jacob’s syndrome is a genetic condition that occurs when a male’s gene have. A extra y chromosome. Jacob’s syndrome is also called xyy syndrome, xyy karyotype, or yy syndrome. This genetic mutation occurs in about 0.1 percent of all boys born. In jacobs syndrome you have 27 chromosome instead of 26. Jacobs syndrome is associated with learning disabilities and if you have jacobs syndrome you have delayed speech and language skills like walking and sitting you can check if you have jacobs syndrome by doing
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A fetus diagnosed with Edward’s Syndrome, named after John Hilton Edwards, spells certain suffering in the future for both the parents and child. Edward’s Syndrome, also known as Trisomy 18, is a rare condition that is caused by three copies of chromosome 18. 1 in 5000 live-born infants are affected by Edward’s Syndrome with even more not surviving the pregnancy or being terminated. A fetus with this condition does not grow and they do not develop their heart and kidney’s correctly in the mother’s
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Have you ever seen someone with crutches and called them a cripple just to be shushed by your mother and told it’s rude and the correct term is handicapped? Well for many, they prefer the term, handicapped, because it makes them feel still of use versus deformed or broken, but for Nancy Mairs, she proudly uses the negative term, cripple, quite affirmatively. Handicapped infers restrictions to one’s ability to function physically, mentally, or socially, but Nancy indulgences the wincing of others
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1.1 Identify possible multiple conditions and/or disabilities the individual may have. There are many possible multiple conditions that an individual can have which can affect their ability to complete everyday tasks. An individual may have a physical disability, learning disability or mental health issue as well as other conditions EG Arthritis, diabetes, dementia, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, cancer or COPD. They may also have a sensory impairment which means they have problems
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