The assignment will focus on a 45 year old lady of Asian origin who has a mild learning disability. She also suffers from type 2 Diabetes and Bipolar affective disorder. The assignment will explain the nature of her learning disability and explore how Bio-Psycho-Social factors have influenced her life. The role of her learning disability nurse in supporting her needs through a person-centred planning approach will also be analysed. The assignment will also discuss with reference to the four key principals
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Anna Arce Ms.Ricciardi March 21‚ 2013 ASL‚ Period 7 Deaf For A Day Living from day to day as a Deaf person‚ you may encounter many unpleasant situations. Little kids staring‚ adults staring‚ employees giving you an attitude for them not understanding‚ and some people who are just plain ignorant to Deaf people because they’re different. Last Saturday I used ear plugs that gave me a mild hearing loss for a day while going through my normal activities; even
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The term disability is often used to describe a physical or mental challenge. This could be a bump in life that can be managed or a mountain that creates serious changes and loss. Either way‚ this term should not be used to describe a person as weaker or lesser than anyone else! Every person has a purpose‚ special uniqueness and value‚ no matter what hurdles they may face. Political Correctness is The avoidance‚ often considered as taken to extremes‚ of forms of expression or action that are perceived
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Emotion –induced blindness Introduction Emotional visual scenes are powerful attracters of attention. Evidence suggests that emotional stimuli themselves attract attention‚ and they can disrupt perception of subsequent stimuli (Anderson and Phelps‚ 2001). In a visual attention search task‚ faster reaction time has been found when target is an emotional stimulus than neutral stimuli (Ohman‚ Lundqvist‚ & Esteves‚ 2001). From these result it seems that emotional stimuli enhance perception of such
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Autism I was interested in learning more about Autism because I have a distant relative who has a son with severe autism. The parents are very bright intelligent and socially eloquent people. The father is a music theory professor at an elite school on the East Coast and the mother is so valued at her job that they fly her back to the west coast a couple times a month for various reasons while letting her work from home the rest of the time. They are very loving‚ patient‚ and caring toward their
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Discussing the Concepts 1. Define marketing and discuss how it is more than just “telling and selling”. Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The two fold goal of marketing is to attract new customers by promising superior value and to keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction. The old sense of making a sale is telling and selling‚ but in new sense it is satisfying customer needs. Selling occurs only after a
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through a common language‚ develops a set of beliefs‚ social behaviors‚ and norms” (Slobodzian‚ 2009). Deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL) or another form of sign language such as British Sign Language (BSL) form a cultural community. Culturally‚ Deaf people carry the view that deafness is a social wonder‚ instead of a disability. The Deaf community takes pride in their Deaf identity. Deaf people are often classified as a minority group‚ and may feel misunderstood or cannot connect with
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The Brain and Behavior BEH 225 September 21‚ 2014 Clifford Marsh Behaviors associated with the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe both covers a certain scope of human behaviors. Because every part of the brain controls a certain part of human behavior‚ damage to a certain part of the head will only affect certain behaviors of an individual. In addition‚ damage to certain areas can cause aphasia‚ which is a speech disturbance resulting from brain damage (Coon & Mitterer‚ 2013). As
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Night blindness also known as Nyctalopia is not a diagnosis‚ but rather a symptom of an underlying disorder. People with night blindness (also called impaired dark adaptation) see poorly in the darkness but see normally when adequate amounts of light are present. The condition does not actually involve true blindness‚ even at night. Recovery is fairly rapid when intake is reduced. Night Blindness is commoner than one can expect it to be. Causes: There are many causes of Night Blindness. Night
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Discussion The current study supports the hypothesis that change blindness varies depending on the type of change made within an everyday scene. Even though the distraction of the flicker method was used‚ participants correct scores were highest in the congruent change condition‚ an object that is replaced with another that is in keeping with the scene was easier to spot. This may be due to the images and objects being of familiarity to the participant. The scenes used were in the kitchen‚ bedroom
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