The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure Scientific Writing June 2010 The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure Introduction: Alcohol is a drug with a depressant effect. Alcohol can negatively affect your brain‚ liver‚ central nervous system‚ and heart. The immediate effects of alcohol consumption are delayed reflexes and slurred speech. Since it is a depressant‚ alcohol slows down your
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communication‚ accommodations‚ modified lessons‚ and detailed individualized instructions. Intellectual disabilities affect many aspect of a person daily life with a variety of emotional‚ mental‚ social‚ and physical characteristics (Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation‚ n.d.). Intellectual disabilities are also known as mental retardation (National Institute of Health‚ 2010). When educating students diagnosed with intellectual disabilities individual education plans (IEP) play a large role in the education process
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productive citizens. INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES – MENTAL RETARDATION Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior‚ which covers many everyday social and practical skills (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)‚ 2012). Intellectual disabilities use to be referred to as mental retardation. Mental retardation is an intellectual disability caused by a birth defect
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own. Andie MacDowell portrays Beth’s sister Rachel Simon‚ a fashion photographer with a life of her own; separate from her family and has grown apart from Beth. The story tells of the life of Rachel’s sister Beth and her life as an adult with mental retardation. It is also speaks of the struggles that Beth has to go through every day by being different. The story interweaves Beth’s childhood and adolescence and how she came to be riding the buses all day‚ every day except for Sunday in Pennsylvania
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exposure are Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). I have seen the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) when I worked in a pediatrics unit. The patient “Lily” was a four year old female when I first met her. Lily had all the devastating effect of (FAS)‚ mental retardation‚ facial abnormalities‚ blindness‚ deafness‚ heart defects‚ low birth weight and failure to thrive. She was literally a prisoner in her own body. Lily’s mother had abandoned her at birth and she was a forever foster child. She passed away at
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people with developmental disabilities 18. Office of Mental Health 19. Human Rights First 20. Salvation Army The Two agencies I have chosen to discuss is Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and Safe Horizon. OPWDD offers services to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. This organization was created because at one point people with all types of disabilities whether it was physical‚ mental‚ psychiatric were placed into an institution called Willowbrook
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fetal alcohol syndrome may include 1. Deformities of joints‚ limbs‚ and fingers 2. Slow physical growth before and after birth 3. Vision difficulties or hearing problems 4. Small head circumference and brain size 5. Poor coordination 6. Mental retardation and delayed development 7. Learning disorders 8. Abnormal behaviors‚ such as a short attention span‚ hyperactivity‚ poor impulse control‚ extreme nervousness and anxiety 9. Heart defects and more B. Individuals with this syndrome also
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Phenylketonuria‚ also known as PKU‚ was discovered in the 1920s by a Norwegian doctor named Asbjorn Folling. As the story goes there was a young couple by the name of Harry and Borgny Egeland. Harry was a dentist and Borgny had quit working to be a devote wife and mother. Shortly after their marriage Borgny became pregnant with their first child‚ a beautiful little girl named Liv. As Liv grew and 3 years had passed her parents became concerned with the fact that she hadn’t began talking yet.
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sight‚ I thought to myself‚ this won’t be alright. In 1910 a million passed through‚ So‚ I threw myself a party and played my kazoo. 350 babies were born in my hospital‚ Eastern Europeans were so undesirable. People were tested for mental retardation‚ But those people still had determination. Car companies often paid for people’s trips‚ The people that came to America came on humongous ships. There were schools for new mothers‚ The people came off the boat one after another. In Ellis
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reach their education level. Also these work programs help takes off the many stresses facing parents. They no longer have to go it alone. Tay Sachs disease is another seletc ive genetic disorder that destroyed nerve cells. This causes mental retardation‚ loss of muscle control and death. Children who inherit an abnormal gene from both parents will inherit the decease. The carrier parents have one normal gene and one defetc ive gene. Carriers of Tay-Sachs disease have no symptoms. " If two carriers
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