...Alanna, my autistic sister was three when I met her. My father had married her mother and I had a sister who I couldn’t understand yet. Cynicism toward her from certain strangers, friends, and family was sparked from that autism, and her social quirks that existed because of it. In a usual day she experiences ridicule and isolation. People assumed because she was different and they couldn't understand her ways that she was less than them, that they shouldn't let their kids around her, that she was unfit for society. In the night she would scribble on the walls or pilfer food, one time; even roving a half of a mile down the road naked. Autism made it difficult for us to communicate with her, explain to her social norms and rules, she just enjoyed the...
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...Today we got a new student in class. He is different though he has a autism spectrum disorder, which means that she has trouble to communicate and interact socially or repetitive behaviors. When he came in the whole class reacted with shock. There was also a few giggles and funny looks exchanged. I felt like my classmates where messed up. My first thoughts were why did he come in this class because he has a disability. Then during passing period the worst thing happened. The bell rang ding ding ding and out in the hallway Conor was getting picked on. What happened was that the way Conor looked made people pick on him. How I reacted was that I went over their and helped Conor pick up his books because the other kids pushed him and he dropped...
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...is “the continuum through which students develop a mature, integrated identity with a systemic understanding of the interrelationships among the self, local and global communities, and the natural and physical world.” The next issue addressed was Perspective which is “Taking the continuum through which students develop a mature, integrated identity with a systemic understanding of the interrelationships among the self, local and global communities, and the natural and physical world. Another issue we addressed was Cultural Diversity which is “the ability to recognize the origins and influences of one’s own cultural heritage along with its limitations in providing all that one needs to know in the world.” The next issue talked about was Personal and Social Responsibility which is “the ability to recognize one’s responsibilities to society-locally, nationally, and globally- and to develop a perspective on ethical and power relations both across the globe and within individual societies.” The next topic discussed was Understanding Global Systems which is “the complex and overlapping worldwide systems, including natural systems and human systems, which operate in observable patterns and often are affected by or are the result of human design or disruption. The final topic addressed was Applying Knowledge to Contemporary Global Contexts which is “the application of an integrated and systemic understanding of the interrelationships between contemporary and past challenges facing cultures...
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...specialized knowledge and skill working with children and their caregivers. I bring my extensive knowledge of child development coupled with my family systemic approach to parent-child challenges, children struggling with school related challenges like bullying, learning challenges, children with anxiety, OCD, Autism, and general developmental challenges. I work to understand the unique skills and abilities that each person possesses. The process of counselling helps to uncover these abilities for a child and parent. Treatment of a child can comprise of parental consultations, family therapy and individual therapy. In my counselling with children I may use talk, art and play to help your child learn new ways of copying. Kids love coming to see Bruce. I’d like to think it is just because kids feel comfortable with me, but it might also have something to do with the volume of child focussed activities in my office, from Lego to Egg chairs! I also offer an extensive set of resources for parents to help them support their children....
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...Introduction: As I prepare to enter the professional world, I understand that I will be likely forced to make decisions based on my personal ethical code and the ethical code of the American Marketing Association. For this paper, I have utilized a combination of my personal and professional experience along with a variety of professional sources to reflect on how I can act ethically during my career. Additionally, I will utilize Mayeroff's On Caring and Dokecki’s book along with the lecture slides to help the role that ethics will play in my professional career. My Personal Background: In tieing my experiences back to the idea of ethics, I cannot ignore the major role that my disability has played in the way that I view the world, my concept...
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...CBT is most effective in treating mild to moderate depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, Obsessive compulsive disorder and Post traumatic stress disorder (Finn, 2013). CBT is also effective for “treating problems associated with low self-esteem, unrealistic expectations of self and others, irrational fears and controlling anger” (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, Gottfried, 2016). CBT is typically used with adults within the dominant culture (Hepworth, 2016). Cultural minority groups often face prejudices and stereotypes that influence the therapists’ negative assumption of their narrative and cognitive processes (Hepworth, 2016). Hinton, Rivera, Hofmann, Barlow & Otto (2012) also found that CBT was limiting the effectiveness for minority populations due to the lack of incorporating the clients religious, cultural healing traditions and...
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...meet their needs is vital to the success of the program and the future of the clients. Factors affecting Teamwork What are the factors involved that prevent an experienced, knowledgeable and valued employee from acting as a “Team Player”? Some of the factors I am looking at in this paper have to do with internal and external factors. Internal factors being derived from ideas of self efficacy. External factors include individual perceptions of management and the organizations support and training of team players. Can methods of communication have a positive or negative affect on an individual performing as a team player? What are the social influences that are either acting as an encouragement or discouragement to team participation? Narrative Description Pathpoint has a very low employee turnover...
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...A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs.[1] It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases usually affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with many diseases can alter one's perspective on life, and their personality. Death due to disease is called death by natural causes. There are four main types of disease: pathogenic disease, deficiency disease, hereditary disease, and physiological disease. Diseases can also be classified as communicable and non-communicable disease. Terminology In many cases, the terms disease, disorder, morbidity and illness are used interchangeably.[2] In some situations, specific terms are considered preferable. [edit]Disease The term disease broadly refers to any condition...
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...CASE STUDIES Amy’s Kitchen Case Study From start-up to leading natural and organic frozen food brand Reference Code: CSCM0256 Publication Date: August 2009 DATAMONITOR VIEW CATALYST Amy’s Kitchen was established by Andy and Rachel Berliner in 1987, and concentrates on the production of natural and organic meals. The company has dramatically expanded its product range in the 22 years since its founding from its one initial vegetable pot pie and in the fiscal year 2008, recorded revenues of 240million USD. The global economic crisis has been problematic for Amy’s Kitchen, as consumers seeking to make savings to their household budgets have reduced their spending on organic and natural food. However, core customers remain and many will continue to both regularly purchase the brand and be unpaid ambassadors for it, which has been part of its marketing success since its inception. SUMMARY • The Amy’s Kitchen company began as a business in 1987 in California and is named after Amy Berliner, the daughter of the two founders Andy and Rachel Berliner. The company has grown into the leading natural frozen food brand in the US, benefiting from the rise of the organic foods market. • The two founders had previous experience of working in the food industry with the Magic Mountain Herbal Tea Company and in the case of Rachel Berliner’s family from organic farming. This placed them in good stead for the creation of their organics company. • The company is resolutely in favor of...
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...Down syndrome: Observing Shannon Submitted by: Alfonse Bowman Arcadia University ED 584: Supporting Students with Low Incidence Disabilities Professor Hopkins Fall 2013 Introduction For our final paper I chose to research trisomy 21 or as it is known clinically, Down syndrome (DS). The primary reason I chose this low incidence disability is because I will make the transition from a regular education teacher to a special education teacher in the spring and I am already familiar with other low incidence disabilities. I realize that with my new role in a self-contained classroom it is important for me to understand the term Down syndrome and then see how the definition and behavioral traits impact the student, the teacher and the other students in an educational setting. This research paper will provide clinical and anecdotal information on DS with real-life observation of a student with Down syndrome. History of Disorder According to the National Down Syndrome Society (2013), during the early nineteenth century, John Langdon Down, an English physician, published an accurate description of a person with Down syndrome. It was this scholarly wok, published in 1866, that earned Down the recognition as the “father” of the syndrome. Although other people had previously recognized the characteristics of the syndrome, it was Down who described the condition as a distinct and separate entity. The United States Department of Health and Human Services Center for Disease Control...
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...following will review various graphic organizers, charts, and matrices that can be implemented for further development of reading comprehension. In addition, a summary will follow the illustrative pictorial of lesson introduction that provides an explanation regarding the implementation or utilization considering that particular comprehension example of focus. Beginning / Middle / End Beginning / Middle / End Summary: Using the Hamburger Model diagram will assist students to beef up their writing skills and promote or increase their focus on details while reading. The paragraph hamburger is a composing or authoring tool that will assist young writers to pictorially summarize important or main elements of a passage. Main focus, narrative or describing text, and concluding sentence are the central components or portions of a complete paragraph, and each section shapes a distinctive chunk of the hamburger (Richards, 2008). During the process of using the Hamburger Method of Beginning/Middle/End will assist students to focus on three main components of a passage or text; the introduction (top bun), the center or reinforcing material (the filling), and the finale or wrap-up sentence (bottom bun). Use of the Hamburger...
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...Chapter 1: Student Characteristics Understand Characteristics of Students with Disabilities Some students with disabilities pass through typical developmental milestones and express skills within an average range for their age group. Others show delayed growth at certain developmental milestones, and many students with disabilities experience challenges as they navigate through the school curriculum. It is critical that special education teachers know how to differentiate between typical individual differences among children without disabilities and differences that may indicate a disability that requires interventions and/or specialized designed instruction. In addition, special education teachers need to know the most common types of disabilities that students may experience and how those disabilities affect their ability to learn and their behavior in the classroom. Competency 1 thus focuses on the characteristics of typical and atypical human growth and development and the characteristics of students with various disabilities that special education teachers are likely to encounter. The test includes a wide range of multiple-choice questions that address Competency 1. * Questions on typical and atypical behaviors and abilities for children and adolescents at particular ages. * Questions on the types and characteristics of various disabilities. * Questions on the similarities and differences among students with and without disabilities. This competency encompasses...
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...Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 BRAIN POWER Myth #1 Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain Power Myth #2 Some People Are Left-Brained, Others Are Right-Brained Myth #3 Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon Myth #4 Visual Perceptions Are Accompanied by Tiny Emissions from the Eyes Myth #5 Subliminal Messages Can Persuade People to Purchase Products 2 FROM WOMB TO TOMB Myth #6 Playing Mozart’s Music to Infants Boosts Their Intelligence Myth #7 Adolescence Is Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil Myth #8 Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in | 8 Their 40s or Early 50s Myth #9 Old Age Is Typically Associated with Increased Dissatisfaction and Senility Myth #10 When Dying, People Pass through a Universal Series of Psychological Stages 3 A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Myth #11 Human Memory Works like a Tape Recorder or Video Camera, and Accurate Events We’ve Experienced Myth #12 Hypnosis Is Useful for Retrieving Memories of Forgotten Events Myth #13 Individuals Commonly Repress the Memories of Traumatic Experiences Myth #14 Most People with Amnesia Forget All Details of Their Earlier Lives 4 TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS Myth #15 Intelligence (IQ) Tests Are Biased against Certain Groups of People My th #16 If You’re Unsure of Your Answer When Taking a Test, It’s Best to Stick with Your Initial Hunch Myth #17 The Defining Feature of Dyslexia Is Reversing Letters Myth #18 Students Learn Best When Teaching Styles Are Matched to...
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...GUIDANCE SERVICES The systematic and organized procedures, tools and facilities to assist an individual in securing knowledge and skills needed in making plans and services, and in interpreting life. These services provide comprehensive information about opportunities, personality development, effective studying and learning. Purposes: * Help students recognize, accept and develop their potential, adjust to the school, and develop the skills needed to cope with the problems they meet. * Help young people come to know and accept themselves, their aptitudes and interests. * Teach pupils/students learn to use their interests and capabilities. * Teach pupils/students develop the skills to cope with the problems they meet both inside and outside the school. Scope 1. Services rendered to an individual and his needs; inventory of each pupil, information regarding opportunities, counseling for all pupils, follow-up on studies, placement, and assisting teachers in case studies. 2. Services to staff members in providing for leadership, in securing cooperation of the staff members, in assisting teachers in utilizing information, in organizing and conducting in-service training. 3. Services pertaining to evaluation of services; follow-up making results available, surveys, securing cooperation of parents and community, and conducting research to further improve guidance services. . Characteristics of a Good Guidance Service 1. Identifiable aids to...
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...Mary and Max It is 1976, an 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) is a lonely little girl living in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Her relatively poor family cannot afford to buy her toys or nice clothing, and she is teased by children at her school due to an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead. Her father is distant and her alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother provides no support. The closest thing she has to a friend is the man for whom Mary collects mail, Len Hislop, a World War II veteran who lost his legs as a prisoner of war and has developed agoraphobia. One day, she decides to write a letter to someone living in New York City: by pure chance she chooses Max Jerry Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman) from a telephone directory. Max turns out to be a morbidly obese 44-year-old whose various mental problems (including anxiety attacks and overeating) have left him unable to form close bonds with other people. Max decides to write back to Mary, and the two become friends. Over time, Mary's increasingly sensitive questions about the adult world give Max progressively worse anxiety attacks, and he is ultimately institutionalized. During his time there, Max is diagnosed with depression and Asperger syndrome. Now aware of why he has difficulty relating to other people, Max finds a new lease on life and resumes his correspondence with Mary. The two remain friends for the next two decades, keeping one another updated on various events in their lives. Mary (Toni Colette)...
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