Annotated Reference List Karen McGee Grand Canyon University: UNV 501 May 29, 2013 The article Preparing Teachers for Special Education in the United States: A Reflection was interesting because it told the history of Special Education. It talked about how Special Education teachers should stand up for the kids in their class and do everything they could to help their students succeed. It discussed the high turnover rate among Special
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Washing hands until they're raw, lining up cans in alphabetical order, hoarding every newspaper you’ve ever bought: welcome to the bizarre world of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Watching Jack Nicholson in his Oscar-winning performance as Melvin Udall in the 1997 hit movie, As Good as it Gets, had millions of people chuckling at the eccentric and neurotic antics he portrayed. He negotiates his way through the streets of Manhattan painstakingly avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk. He washes
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Mind and Body Health One of the statistics that got my attention from the website was that high levels of hostility have been found to predict heart disease more often than high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, or obesity (Health Psychology, November 2002). This interested me the most because I always thought that high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, or obesity would be more predictive than hostility when it came to heart disease. Who would’ve thought that mental health can affect one’s cardiac
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Tourette’s Syndrome Tourette's syndrome, also called Tourette's disorder is named after the neurologist, Gilles de la Tourette. Sometimes it is referred to as GTS but more often it is simply called Tourette's or ‘TS’. It is an inherited neurological disorder marked by movement-based (motor) tics which are abrupt, repetitive, stereotyped, non-rhythmic movements, as well as vocal (verbal or phonic) tics which are involuntary sounds produced by moving air through the nose, mouth, or throat
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situations that would be helpful. Be sure to discuss how each of the three chosen uses of dyads would be valuable to your group. The group I wish to lead is children with Asperg’s Syndrome (it is a high functioning Autism, my son has this I want to educate others first of all as to what this is. Children with Aspreg’s Syndrome are usually pushed off to the side; they are loners anyways so this does not help their social skills. Children need help on social cues and how their words affect feelings of
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PSY 201 Group Project Submitted to Ms .Samah Yasmeen Abass 1037436 Nowadays , diseases have become familiar around the whole world. Every year, studies show memorable of diseases , and an Autism is one of these diseases . In our research we will going to talk about Autism , how it is look like , why it's happened , and how the community deal with it .If we want to define the word of Autism , we will going to say that Autism means developmental disorder that occurs in 1 out of every
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and especially a new one is very hard because you’re leaving your whole support structure behind. For me this was about the time that I realized how big of a change college was going to be and how much stress I was going to encounter. What it comes down to is it’s going to be up to us as individuals to create new social networks and understand
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Autism Autism is one of the fastest growing disabilities in the United States and affects the lives of 1 in 88 children 1 in 54 affecting boys. It usually appears within the first three years of a child’s life and can affect the social and communication skills of the child’s brain. Autism cost a family on average $60,000 a year and males are five times more likely to have autism than females. Even though there is no medical cure for autism parents can educate themselves on the symptoms, treatment
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Obsessive - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents A Review of Literature Galaunda J. Pee Professor Shirley McClerklin - Motley “Using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR)” Coker College, Hartsville South Carolina Abstract Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD, is a medical disorder that causes repetitive, unpleasant thoughts (obsessions) or
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Han Qi AUG 15 2013 Should high-functioning autism be considered a disability? In this week, we are talking about people who are autistic. Such as Christopher, the main character in The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time; Jacob Barnett, Daniel Tammet and even Temple Grandin who was talked about in today' s film earlier. They all have autism, but one point you cannot deny is that they are all genius. So, my view about this topic is, high-functioning autism is not, and should be not
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