PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL Understanding Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Abstract Intellectual disability‚ autism‚ severe disabilities‚ and deaf and blindness‚ all these are different disabilities that fall under the umbrella of Special Education. As a special educator it is very critical for one to learn about all the different disabilities‚ to know about the causes and the characteristics. Students with disabilities are evaluated by their school to determine if they are eligible for
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Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder in the central nervous system that‚ effecting young adults‚ leading to non-traumatic disabilities. This disease starts as an auto-immune disease in which CD4 T cells cross the blood brain barrier and attack myelin sheaths of olygodendrocytes resulting in demyelination (Gandhi et al.‚ 2010; Lund et al.‚ 2013). Initially this is a transient process and re-myelination occurs‚ so initial stage of the disease is characterized
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with everything else in life‚ having sex gets better with practice‚ the outcome can be a very fulfilling reward for you and your partner if one or more orgasms are delivered. Both male and female orgasms are similar in many ways. Although studies have shown that female orgasms tend to last much longer than men. Both men and women involve a rapid series of muscular contractions in the genital and anal areas. Women generally experience more intense contractions because the uterus can contract along
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Introduction Definition of multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system including the brain‚ spinal cord‚ and optic nerves. The central nervous system is made up of nerve cells that send signals to each other. Each nerve cell is covered with a protective lining called myelin which acts like insulation on an electrical wire. It allows signals to pass between nerve cells at high speed. In multiple sclerosis‚ disease activity damages the myelin in a process
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Personal distress and disability When determining whether behavior is abnormal or not we can consider whether it violates social norms or it makes people observing it feel threatened or distressed. Personal suffering can be used to explain if a person has some form of abnormal behavior. Disability is defined as whether a person impaired in some important aspects of their life‚ for example‚ work‚ relationships and so on. This can be defined as abnormal as well. Behavior can be considered
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unemployed workers. D) amount of output per worker. Answer: D Diff: 1 Topic: Section: 1.1 Question Status: Previous Edition 4) In analyzing macroeconomic data during the past year‚ you have discovered that average labor productivity fell‚ but total output increased. What was most likely to have caused this? A) There is nothing unusual in this outcome because this is what normally occurs. B) The capital/output ratio probably rose. C) There was an increase in labor input. D) Unemployment
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Unit 56 - Move and Position Individuals in Accordance with their Plan of Care 1 Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to moving and positioning individuals 1.1 Outline the anatomy and physiology of the human body in relation to the importance of correct moving and positioning of individuals Our bodies have many muscles and bones‚ these working together help the human body move. Certain muscles with certain bones will work together to move the part of the body. When a muscle contracts
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Understand and enable interaction and communication with individuals who have dementia Unit code: Dem 312 1. Understand the factors that can affect interaction and communication of individuals with dementia 1.2 Explain how physical and mental health factors may need to be consider when communicating with an individual who has dementia. There are many factors to consider such as pain‚ pain can cause misunderstandings as individuals may be in so much discomfort they cannot what they want and
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Malalignment‚ or as it is more casually known‚ Miserable Malalignment‚ is a leg condition that causes the bones to twist as they grow. When I was 12‚ I was diagnosed with this condition‚ and at the time my doctors recommended that I wait to see if I might outgrow this ailment. Sadly‚ it worsened and this summer I had reconstructive leg surgery to correct the problem. Not only did the surgery immobilize me for what could have been an exciting and fun summer‚ it also posed challenges for the start of
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Student Number: 11032300 Disability Report – Victims of state’s eugenics program win sympathy Sterilization is ‘any procedure by which an individual is made incapable of reproduction’ (The free dictionary‚ 2013) Forced sterilization is what to happened ‘7600 people’ (Wang‚ 2011) in America from the 1920s to the 1970s. This tragic event was the presentation topic we were assigned to examine. The topic we were given focused on victims of the sterilization process within America and how the state-funded
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