...SPED-330 July 3, 2015 The case study I selected to write about was number two. The information provided stated the Gabriel is a kindergarten student who has cerebral palsy. He has to use a wheelchair, wear a diaper and uses a feeding tube. Gabriel is nonverbal, however is able to communicate some, and make choices when provided with two options. Gabriel needs to work on grasping things because he has limited strength in his hands. Cerebral Palsy (CP) “is an umbrella term that refers to a group of disorders affecting a person’s ability to move” (What is cerebral palsy). “1 in 500 babies are diagnosed with cerebral palsy” (About CP). Children with cerebral palsy typically will encounter specific learning difficulties. “These may include a short attention span, motor planning difficulties (organization and sequencing), perceptual difficulties and language difficulties” (What is cerebral palsy). There are three known forms of cerebral palsy : spastic, athetoid, and ataxic. A child who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy can be affected mildly or severely depending on the amount or part of brain. Generally children who are diagnosed with cerebral palsy can attend school. Although the child may experience some learning disabilities and may require some assistant, but frequently can do things children without cerebral palsy can do. According to the Learning Disabilities Association of America, 2.4 million students are diagnosed with specific learning disabilities (SLD) and receive...
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...Middle School in Anderson County, Tennessee. CMS serves 651 students Grades 6 through 8. 38% of the students are from families that are economically disadvantaged and 15% of the students have disabilities. 92 % of students are White, 6% are Black and 2% are Hispanic. The class I observed was a Comprehensive Development Class. At Clinton Middle School the Special Education staff provide a continuum of services to students with disabilities. Their premise is that the general education classroom is the first placement for all students. Services intensify based on evaluation measures, and an Individual Education Plan (IEP) is developed dependent on any students’ individual needs. The Comprehensive Development Classroom is one service delivery model that they provide. Students in the CDC classroom have been identified as needing a small, structured environment where core...
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...disability) 2. disability involves 2 aspects, having an ongoing physical or mental condition that society views as unusual or that discrimination occurs b/c of the difference Ableism – 1. persons who view people with disabilities as inferior Stereotypes of society 1. medical model a. they are broken and need to be fixed 2. moral model b. disability is linked to sin or blessings 3. social model c. page 15 the social set up of our structures disables a person 4. materialist perspective d. people w/ disabilities are discrimination again b/co f economic setup 5. post modern perspective e. we are all connected and disability is another part of human manifestation What are some socially acceptable disabilities: 1. ADHD 2. visual impairment 3. hearing impairment 4. diabetes 5. epilepsy (with medication) 6. MS 7. Depression 8. Aspersers What are some socially unacceptable disabilities 1. alcoholism 2. cerebral palsy 3. HIV Aids 4. severe mental retardation 5. mental illness CHAPTER #3 Page25, even in nations where legally defined civil rights have developed, disability remains at the periphery of society, as the new legal rights have yet to break established social classifications Page 29...
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...adjustments to accommodate individuals with special needs or a disability, or when they give them less favourable treatment. Disabilities A disability is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations. Thus disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives. Disability is the interaction between individuals with a health condition (e.g. cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and depression) and personal and environmental factors (e.g. negative attitudes, inaccessible transportation and public buildings, and...
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...students who possess inadequate social skills. It thus becomes increasingly difficult to develop the child socially, academically and emotionally considering that these skills are vital in developing one’s social well-being. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is at this moment defined as a model based on structured sessions and enactive performance-based procedures to give the desired changes in behavior, thinking and feeling. Application of CBT in Schools CBT provides an appropriate framework to handle disparities in children’s social development. The actual context will thus involve CBT bringing out behavioral and emotional changes in elementary children as well as adolescents in high schools. Fazio-Griffith and Ballard (2014) argue that there exists children who have problems in developing relationships with their teachers and peers. Usually, Cognitive Behavior Therapy has given an ample intervention that improves the academic and emotional level of functioning. In elementary and middle schools, social skills groups would function appropriately with CBT to induce the required social outcomes. Fazio-Griffith and Ballard (2014) state that elementary schools have deployed this strategy to handle cases of conduct disorders such as autism and cerebral palsy. Elsewhere in high schools where the students are older, play therapy skills such as Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy are integrated into school programs to enhance the development of social skills. ASCA (2012) indicates...
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...Current Paediatrics (2002) 12, 414 ^ 418 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd c doi:10.1006/cupe.2002.0319, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on Writing a research paper Malcolm Chiswick Professor of Child Health & Paediatrics, University of Manchester and Consultant Paediatrician, St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children Whitworth Park, Manchester M13 0JH, UK KEYWORDS human, writing, science, journalism Summary The aim of this article is to help those embarking on research to communicate e¡ectively through writing, and to improve their chances of getting a paper published. The quality of a paper’s research content is judged by originality importance and , scienti¢c validity Advice should be sought on a project’s potential for high-quality re. search content before taking up the research.When readers have di⁄culties in understanding a paper, the problem more often lies with presentation and structure than with its scienti¢c content. Readers expect information to be presented in a certain way and when this does not happen they may misinterpret whatthe writer intended. 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd c PRACTICE POINTS Preparing the ¢rst draft K agree early on who are the contributors to the paper K choose a lead writer K choose a working title before commencing the ¢rst draft K follow precisely the journal’s ‘instructions for authors’ K aim to complete the ¢rst draft in one sitting Getting the message across emphasize information by placing it at the end of the...
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...Medical Sleuth Tom Shachtman, Smithsonian, Feb. 2006, Vol. 36 Issue 11, p23-30 IT WAS EVERY PARENT'S nightmare: a few days before Christmas 1999, Elizabeth and Samuel Glick, Old Order Amish dairy farmers in rural Dornsife, Pennsylvania, an hour's drive north of Harrisburg, found their youngest child, 4-month-old Sara Lynn, gravely ill. They rushed her to a local hospital, from where she was soon transferred to the larger Geisinger Medical Center in the next county. There, a doctor noted a hemorrhage in her right eye and extensive bruising on her body and suspected that her injuries were caused by child abuse. Alerted to the doctor's suspicion, the police and officials from the Northumberland County Children and Youth Services descended on the Glicks' farm during the evening milking, and took away the couple's seven other children, all boys, ranging in age from 5 to 15. The boys were separated and placed in non-Amish foster homes. Sara died the next day, and when the county coroner found blood in her brain, he declared her death a homicide. At Sara's funeral, on Christmas Eve, Elizabeth and Samuel were not permitted to speak privately with their sons. By that time Samuel had already contacted the Clinic for Special Children in Lancaster County, and pleaded with its director, pediatrician D. Holmes Morton--the world's leading authority on genetic-based diseases of the Amish and Mennonite peoples--to find the cause of his daughter's death. THE AMISH are Anabaptists, Protestants...
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...Physical therapists conduct a brief examination of the anatomical and physiological functions of the individual with SMS including heart rate, edema, skin color, height, weight, and alertness. According to an article by Smith et al., (2012) addressing and monitoring musculoskeletal changes and conducting regular neurodevelopmental evaluations are clinically necessary in the management of Smith -Magenis syndrome. Consistent with the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice 3.0 (APTA, 2014) the evaluation of children with SMS requires assessment of the following areas: muscle performance, neuromotor development and sensory processing, motor function, posture, balance, mobility/locomotion, gait, self-care, community, social, and education life, assistive technology, mental functions, reflex, peripheral nerve, and sensory integrity, range of motion and skeletal/joint integrity and environmental...
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...………………………………………………......... Page 5 Discussion..................…………………………………………………………............ Page 8 Conclusion……….....……………………………………………………...……..………. Page 11 References….………….…………………………………………….…….……….….….. Page 12 Executive Summary Motivation is defined as “the forces within an individual that account for the level, direction and persistence expended at work” (Wood, Zeffane, Fromholtz, Wiesner & Creed, 2010). |This report will focus upon three motivational theories to explain the exceptional motivation ‘Team Hoyt’ depict and outline the particularly important factors that influence this behaviour in the workplace. ‘Team Hoyt’ is a rather unusual father son athletic duo made up of a Dick and Rick Hoyt. The son, Rick, has cerebral palsy and if fully paralysed. To fulfil Rick’s passion for competing his father, Dick, carries him through marathons and triathlons; a seemingly impossible task without the appropriate level of motivation. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs is a theory based on human motivation; it shows that people are motivated to meet lower order needs before moving onto higher order needs. Since Rick and Dick have already satisfied the lower order needs, well at least partially, they are motivated to obtain higher order needs. This works the same way in organizations where employees seek further fulfillment once their basic needs have been met. Expectancy Theory was created by Victor Vroom and it “Argues that work motivation is determined by individual beliefs...
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...The purpose of this essay is to discuss the influences of parenting on children’s mental health; with a particular focus, on the role played by parent’s attachment styles, in cohesion with the parent’s physical and psychological health. The essay will further highlight an existence of additional complex factors, above and above parenting, that affect children’s mental health, varying from, social, environmental, cultural, stigma and poverty effects. Mental health can described as state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. Research outlines that, a child mental well being is thought to depend a combination of factors such healthy and balanced nutrition, socialization, and nurturing, provided by primary caregivers, extended family, and the community of residence, a potential impact to which, the child development process can proceeds along a healthy, or potentially traumatic trajectory (Gardner, & Gunn, 2012). From a social and nurturing perspective, the attachment theory supports the above notion, by stating that the quality of mother-child (or primary caregiver) attachment, is regarded as a pervasive factor in the development of an individual’s relational psychology throughout the entire lifespan (Bowlby, 1982; Freud, 1932). Attachment theory evolves from a basic premise that attachment behaviours are part of...
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...Family involvement plays a crucial part in prevention of disease or healing processes. McCubbin and McCubbin (1993) developed the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation which identifies how families cope with hardships and/or stressors such as chronic illnesses, addictions, deaths, etc. Stress is a concern central to most families. Family involvement provides a greater overview of the care patients should receive to cope with stressors. Therefore, nurse practitioners (NP) have the duty to involve each individual patient in his or her care as well as any identified family member. This paper will focus on the importance of implementing the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation as a foundation to...
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...Additional Support for Learning Assessment 1, Children have many basic needs ranging from things as simple as food and water to the need to feel safe and secure and to live within a loving home. Giving children a healthy balanced diet ensures that their body grows as it is supposed to and they can reach their developmental mile stones. It helps them to be able to concentrate and learn new things. Children need to be able to feel safe and secure were every they may be wither it be at home school or nursery this will help to give them the confidence to grow and become confident individuals as they enter adulthood. Feeling loved and happy is also very important to children as this too will help to boost their self-esteem and having good role models to help mould them into responsible young adults comes in here. Theorist Maslow believes that everyone’s most basic needs have to be met in order for them to progress through life starting with things such as food, water and shelter then moving up his hierarchy of needs to eventually reaching self-actualisation, another theorist who is Mia Kellmer Pringle says that there are four basic needs that need to be met for children from birth to ensure that they can grow and develop, these are 1, the need for love and security, 2, the need for new experiences, 3, the need for recognition and praise and 4, the need for responsibility she believes that if all children have this from birth then they have the opportunity to grow up and become what...
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...child has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. 3. ASD is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. 4. ASD is almost 5 times more common among boys (1 in 42) than among girls (1 in 189). 5. Studies in Asia, Europe, and North America have identified individuals with ASD with an average Prevalence of about 1%. A study in South Korea reported a prevalence of 2.6%. 6. About 1 in 6 children in the United States had a developmental disability in 2006-2008, ranging from mild disabilities such as speech and language impairments to serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism. BODY Main Point 1: 1. The autism spectrum represents a different way for minds to operate but it is not a defective way. Autism, also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a complex developmental disability. I happen to have two nephews with autism, one who I am very close to and interact with a lot. A child is usually diagnosed with autism during the first three years of life. It is a result of a neurological disorder...
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...The Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP) http://www.borp.org The Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization performing towards the improvement of health, self-reliance, and social inclusion of people with physical disabilities through physical fitness, athletics, leisure, and recreation programs. BORP, believes that athletics and recreation programs provide a route to an accomplishment to which all people should have access. BORP offers programs for both youth and adults, wheelchair basketball, adaptive cycling, goalball, power soccer, an adventures and outings program. BORP is in Berkeley, California and is the foremost provider and contributor of accessible and inclusive sports and recreation...
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...Assessed & Supported Year in Employment Fictional case study Case study: ‘Lisa’ Lisa is a newly qualified social worker who has recently joined the Newfield Children with Disability team. Lisa met her line manager, Jules, and her ASYE assessor, Frank, in her first week in the Newfield Children with Disability team. In the meeting they developed a learning agreement for Lisa’s ASYE. Lisa brought to the meeting a copy of a report from her final placement whilst at university. The report shows that Lisa is an enthusiastic and promising social worker with a good knowledge of social work theory; however, she has not worked in a Children with Disability team before so Frank and Jules agree to provide Lisa with a detailed induction. The learning agreement also set out that Frank and Lisa will meet on a monthly basis to review her work and draw together the assessment evidence for the year. This will be in addition to the supervision that Lisa will have with Jules; they will meet weekly for the first six weeks. In the section of the learning agreement on quality assurance, Jules is named as a third partner who will offer additional support and insight. Based on this, Lisa, Jules and Frank agree to meet together every other month. Lisa and Frank will also have formal review meetings at three and six months. At the end of Lisa’s second month at Newfield, she meets Frank to review her progress. As well as meeting to draw up the learning agreement, they have had a further meeting to discuss...
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