The human services field is simply amazing. While attending elementary high school the teachers would all ask the students “what do you want to be when you up”? I was really shy and would never speak up when asked this question. To myself I’m thinking I want to be a nurse. Taking care of my great grandmother really opened my eyes to the needs of people in general. During this time I would go about my daily norm of helping my great grandmother‚ grandmother; anyone that was in need of help. Coming
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Richard Jin December 13‚ 2011 Period 7 Persuasive Essay How to be a hero 101 There are many heroes in the world --- people who sacrifice themselves to a certain degree to help save other people in need. Heroes can be found anywhere‚ having different backgrounds. Sometimes they may be forced to become one because of the situation they are in. Other times‚ they may be offered a choice of living an easy simple life or leading a life full of hardships for the common good of the people around them
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LABELING Some educators believe that the labels used to identify and classify exceptional children today stigmatize them and serve to deny them opportunities in the mainstream. Labeling is required to be included for special education. Under current law‚ to receive special education services‚ a child must be identified as having a disability (i.e.‚ labeled) and‚ in most cases‚ must be further classified into one of that state’s categories‚ such as mental retardation or learning disabilities. Others
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Congenital Heart Defects in Children Imagine giving birth to a beautiful‚ healthy looking‚ baby girl and holding her in your arms for the first time. Now imagine a doctor telling you that this little miracle has a possible life threatening congenital heart defect. I can because this happened to me. My daughter suffers from three different congenital heart defects. According to the American Medical Association Family Medical Guide‚ about 8 out of every 1‚000 children are born with heart abnormalities
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Imagine what it would feel like if someone used your disability as an insult… Since the late 1800’s‚ the word ‘retard’ has been used - firstly as a clinical diagnosis to mean delay or hold back in term of progress‚ then later became a derogatory slang to mean stupid or dumb. While the word certainly was used to mean intellectually inhibited‚ many believe the everyday usage of the word “retard” is not directed toward people with disabilities‚ and therefore should be okay to incorporate into day
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A complete gait cycle begins with one foot making contact on the ground and ending with the same foot making contact on the ground for the second time. The two main phases that will occur during the gait cycle are ‘Stance Phase’ and the ‘Swing Phase’. Stance Phase • Heel strike- the point when the heel hits the floor • Foot flat- the point where the whole foot comes into contact with the floor • Mid stance- where we are transferring weight from the back‚ to the front of our feet • Toe off- pushing
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Abilities of People With Disabilities Chris Moore Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform a job as well as an employee without a disability. Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation. The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of employees without disabilities. It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people
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Donald Dior GSU Dr. Purcell SPED 510 Fall 2011 Abstract There has been a change in the identification of a person experiencing Mental Retardation to the term Intellectual Disability. There are several types of Cognitive Functions from mild to severe that coincide to people who have some form of Intellectual Disability that are viewed. The test of a person IQ is one of the main assessments that are used to diagnose a person experiencing an Intellectual Disability. People with Intellectual
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Axia College Material Appendix C Creating a Student Profile for Mock Case Study Apply the information you compiled in Appendix B to create a profile of a student with at least one exceptionality. Compile details about the student within this matrix. You will post the shaded portion in Week Eight for Discussion Question 1 and use the matrix in its entirety for your Final Project. |Requirement |Details
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Just Keep Swimming: A Parents’ Guide to Craniofacial Defect Remember how Nemo hated his smaller right fin because he looks different from the others? But Marlin‚ his father‚ assured him that he would never let anything bad happen to Nemo. You have probably heard that every child is a gift. What if your gift comes out a little bit different? How do you deal with it? Being a parent is a challenging role‚ you wish children could come with a manual attached to them‚ but no they don’t. But do not fret;
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