Intellectual disabilities commonly known by “Mental Retardation”, is dubbed for a term used to describe a person's ability to learn at a less than expected level and function in one's daily life. There are several known types of cognitive functions ranging from mild to severe that are viewed as with some form of Intellectual disability or another. The hypotheses of individuals who display or experience mental retardation normally have some type of mental or physical impairment. Due to the barriers
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affects the education of the student (NICHCY 2012) There are many causes of intellectual; disabilities. Intellectual disabilities can be caused by genetic conditions. This occurs when the child inherits abnormal genes for their parents. Down syndrome. Fragile x syndrome, and phenylketonuria are all examples of genetic conditions. They can also be caused by a mother having trouble during pregnancy. This means the baby does not develop properly this can be caused by several things like if the babies calls
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Effective Reading Instruction Strategies for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities April Scruggs scruggs_am@students.lynchburg.edu Graduate Student – Lynchburg College SPED 644 – Academic Instruction Reading is the cornerstone of instruction for all students regardless of their ability level because it sets the foundation for future progress and success in virtually all other facets of life (Kliewer & Landis, 1999). Recent legislation and research
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conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills.” (AAIDD, 2013) This type of disability originates before age 18 and can have many different causes. The most common causes of intellectual disabilities are genetic conditions, such as PKU or Down syndrome. Other causes are problems during pregnancy, (drinking mother or poor developing cells), problems during birth and health problems like whooping cough, measles or malnutrition. (NICHCY, 2011)
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Building an Ethical Organization Part 1 Kay Wehner HSM/230 July 13, 2014 Kimberly Cowburn Building an Ethical Organization Part 1 Who are we? As the director of MWDDD (Mid-West Division of the Developmentally Disabled), a mental health service that is focused on the developmentally disabled, the main strategy as the director of this organization is to design, implement, and improve the quality and outcomes for the mental health and the social services within the organization. First it
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Did you know that there is a horrible illness that increases miscarriage chances by 900% and infertility by 800%? In addition to these shocking statistics, Down’s syndrome chances increase exponentially with each year of being sick with this disease! This life-devastating disease is named Celiac Disease. It affects the broad spectrum of all ages, starting from the probability of birth, and finishing with the duration of the lifespan of the individual. Nowadays, food allergies, ADHD, diabetes, and
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set of ears, small head size, low birth weight, and weak muscle tone in infancy. Affected individuals also have distinctive facial features, including widely set eyes, low-set ears, a small jaw, and a rounded face. Some children with Cri Du Chat syndrome are born with a heart defect; when the kids are born and start to get older have verbal trouble. But kids are happy and socially active when kids and adults. There are also mental aspects to cri du chat, slow development of motor skills intellectual
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Brown v Board of Education made it so that everyone has the right to the same opportunities in education regardless of their religion, race, sex or anything else. It made it so that everyone was equal in education. Parc v The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was a case that made it so that children from ages 6 to 21 that were considered mentally retarded were to be provided a free public education. Mills v Board of Education was another case that was where 18,000 children were out of school with
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How to Understand Intellectual Disabilities Jennifer L Givens Grand Canyon University: SPE 526 April 9, 2014 Abstract The ability of educators to meet the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004, as well as, have the ability to teach individuals with disabilities requires that all educators take a deeper look into and understand the main diagnoses of these disabilities. The disabilities focused on will include intellectual disability, traumatic brain injury
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Aging and Disability Worksheet Makeithra Joyce University of Phoenix ETH/125 July 27, 2015 The aging population and individuals with disabilities are two of the man categories that experience discrimination and negligence of human rights. These two groups experience issues in society, and difficulty living quality lives. Legislative acts have been enacted to help to eliminate these issues. Finance, health, loneliness are three issues faced by the aging population. Many seniors do not work
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