Pathophysiology of Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system‚ affecting the brain and spinal cord. MS affects approximately 400‚000 people in the United States alone. The onset of MS is usually between 20 and 40 years of age and is more common in women; men may have a more severe progressive course (Luzzio‚ 2013). Life expectancy is shortened in persons with MS‚ and the survival rate is linked to disability. Death usually
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Managing Multiple Sclerosis What is Multiple Sclerosis? Living With It and Managing the Disease The mysterious disease called Multiple Sclerosis has no boundaries; it infects people of all genders and nationalities. Although very little is known about the cause of this debilitating sickness‚ scientists and doctors are recognizing some patterns that may eventually lead to an answer. MS (Multiple Sclerosis)
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Disability experience and reflective journal: We are assigned to do this assignment by Dr.Shaima yasin. At the beginning we were taught about the instructions on how to do this assignment. We are going to use Gibbs reflective cycle to show our disability experience and reflective journal that we had in the campus. In the beginning of this experiment‚ we went to get the wheelchair that we are going to use. we took ourselves on a tour around the campus‚ we started from the classrooms in our faculty
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intellectual disabilities significant limitations in both intellectual functioning (IQ below 75) and adaptive behavior (conceptual‚ social‚ and practical adaptive skills) Autism developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication‚ social interaction‚ and educational performance multiple disabilities the combination of impairments which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education program solely for
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Learning Disabilities Learning Disabilities Students with special needs‚ a learning disability or communication disorders can learn the curriculum and can understand what is going on in the classroom. The only difference that they have from the other students is that they learn the information in a different way. They may learn it at a slower pace‚ different rate and it may take multiple times to get the information. But these students do get it and do learn in school. As educators
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Multiple Sclerosis Human Anatomy and Physiology You pick up the telephone to call your friend. You dial a number which will‚ in effect‚ let the phone know where to send the signals. Except unknown to you‚ something has worn away the rubber which covers and protects the wires within your phone. Some signals cannot get through‚ and the ones that do are unclear. As a result your important information does not get conveyed to your friend.
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Malnutrition In The Philippines – How Will World Health Organization Deal With It? When you say malnutrition‚ it just means bad nutrition. Everyone who has bad nutrition usually does not have nutrients that a healthy body has. Poverty is the main cause if malnutrition because people are not able to eat the right kind of food they need. Lack of money means lack of food and lack of food can lead to malnutrition. Kids are usually the ones being affected by this condition‚ especially here in the Philippines
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working with students with Intellectual Disabilities are the instructional organization and the delivery. Instructing these students cannot be done in an unorganized setting but rather in a detailed oriented manner‚ with goals in place so that the student gets the maximum out of the class that they should. Taking into account their disability when planning the learning instruction has to be paramount in the instructors mind from start. Because of the unique learning traits of students with ID‚ the
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Injuries Due to Sports Specialization Versus Participating in Multiple Sports The Problem The most popular sports to play in The United States are basketball‚ baseball/softball‚ football‚ soccer‚ and volleyball. Club teams‚ youth teams‚ or travel ball teams are prevalent in every sport across the country. Thirty plus years ago boys would play baseball in the spring‚ soccer in the summer‚ and went outside to played basketball and football with friends in the fall and winter until baseball started
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Consider how writers of the period explore ideas of dual or multiple personality. As far back as the 1800s‚ multiple personality disorder has been discussed in many writings of this period. Multiple personality disorder has become known as a severe mental disorder. It has been defined in the Ghana medical journal (2004) as‚ ‘a condition in which the patient shows multiple identities as if he possesses two or more selves at different times in the same body.’ The distinct identities have its own
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