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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A Learning Disability (LD) “is a disorder in one or more of basic psychological process involved in understanding or using the language which may manifest in an imperfect ability to think‚ speak‚ listen‚ read ‚ write ‚ spell or conduct mathematical calculations” . (Zastrow‚ & Kirst-Ashman‚ 2007) It involves difficulty in processing information and/ or using this information to communicate. Children with LD currently make up to 6 present of the school- aged population in the United States and
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Sexual Harassment in workplace What do you understand with the term “Disabilities”? In general‚ disability is a broad term that compares actual ability to normal functioning. It is most often used to refer to impairment‚ and it can be typically divide into several different categories which is physical impairment (paralysis)‚ sensory impairment (blindness)‚ cognitive impairment (dementia)‚ intellectual impairment (mental retardation) or mental health impairment (bipolar disorder). A person may
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Persons with Intellectual Disabilities or Intellectually Disabled Persons: Which is the Classifying Entity? As I write this‚ sitting in a solitaire corner of the library‚ I’m gently enclosing in my hand a simple rubber bracelet. My inspiration. Not the famous‚ bright yellow LiveStrong ones that Neil Armstrong once yielded‚ but a modest black band with contrasting white letters simply stating "I See You." This statement may seem unpretentious and bland‚ maybe even comical to some‚ but it has a sincere
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Nancy Mairs is mentally strong and passionate. She refuses to indulge in the societies way of feeling sorry for those who are unfortunate‚ as in her case. She repudiates the very thought of social protection for her "unable" limbs. Mairs is an independent individualist who refuses to seek refuge for her "crippled" body. The word choice used by any writer can portray or hide any of the author’s points or secrets. Nancy Mairs uses repetitive diction in which she repeats words such as "handicapped"
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Unit 331 p1 Understand Child and Young Persons Development Outcome 1 1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth to 19 years. Area of development | 0-1 year | 2-4 years | Physical | Physical development is usually very rapid. At birth babies depend on reflexes for movements so they can feed‚ or grasp a dummy and can kick their arms and legs by the age of one they have much more control over their bodies. They are learning
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What is revision? According to Nancy Sommers she believes students “understand the revision process as a rewording activity” while adult writers or more experienced writers “seek to discover (to create) meaning in the engagement with their writing ...”. I am in agreement with Sommers argument of the student writer’s understanding of the revision process. I have struggled with writing my entire life and I now understand why. When given a writing assignment I always thought that the rough draft had
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Intellectual disability (ID) is defined as the presence of incomplete mental development (Katz & Lazcano-Ponce‚ 2008). An intelligence quotient (IQ) score below 70-75 is commonly used to diagnose ID‚ and in affected children‚ observable deficits in linguistic‚ social‚ and cognitive skills reveal underlying delays in their development. ID may result from various developmental disorders such as Down and Fragile-X syndromes. Symptoms of ID in children include poorer long-term memory (LTM) than peers
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The unemployment rate in 2012 for people with disabilities was more than 1 in 10 (13.9%) compared to less than 1 in 10 (6.0%) for those without disabilities. Therefore‚ people with disabilities should be treated more equally. People with disabilities should be treated with more respect‚ because of how they were treated in the past‚ their disabilities you can see and cannot see‚ and barriers the disabled face. Throughout history the treatment of the disabled has been evolving. In the 1800’s
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In the past people with disabilities have been viewed as being a “problem” or a “less than whole” where the focus was on their condition or impairment. This way of thinking was very dominant in the 1900’s to 1970’s and known as the medical model where people were institutionalised‚ detained or confined and hid away from society. The 1980’s brought about change when the social model emerged with the concept of inclusion‚ where people with disabilities were viewed as individuals with rights. There
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