sticking your head in the oven‚ running wildly around town in the nude; these are the visions we associate with when the word madness comes to mind. Entering the taboo world of mental illness‚ stigmatized as the crazy and psychotic by decades of misunderstanding‚ Marya Hornbacher takes a step towards reversing those damages by telling her own story in a memoir titled Madness: A Bipolar Life‚ in an attempt to shed some light and insight on the world of manic depression. She details her struggle with
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Unit 4222-253 Introductory awareness of autistic spectrum conditions Learning Outcome 1 1) describe the types of difficulty that individual with an autistic spectrum condition may have with language and other ways of communicating with others The difficulties may show them self in some or all of the following ways: a delayed or complete lack of development of spoken language with no alternative means of communicating developed to compensate for this there may be difficulty in initiating or sustaining
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"the presence of markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activity and interests" (Snell‚ 2003). In the mid-1940s‚ German scientist Hans Asperger described a more mild form of autism‚ known today as Asperger ’s disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ Fourth Edition‚ Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) and International Classification of Diseases‚ Tenth Revision (ICD-10) classifications
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Boy Scout program (Weiegand). Lafontaine said that Adam was very anti-social and did not like to be touched by others. When Adam was in middle school he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome which is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized in the social behavior. As a child finding out that you are diagnosed with Asperger syndrome must be a challenge in life to obtain with. As a mother‚ it must be a difficult challenge to do the best to your ability to provide the needs for your child. Adams’
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A 10 year old boy was labeled “the bad kid” because the staff that was required to watch him believed he was crazy and/or spoiled because he would throw tantrums and not follow the rules. Is the problem really the boy or is it the staff who lacked the education and knowledge of the challenges faced by those with autism spectrum disorder? Autism‚ is not a mental disorder and these children do not choose to misbehave‚ but yet society still labels them without having a full understanding of their background
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I laid my head on my table as I heaved a deep‚ exhausted sigh. That was the only way I could release the exasperation I had locked within myself. It is that tight feeling where you are unable to think or act; even breathe. To be precise‚ it feels like owl claws clutching your heart. Sitting there restlessly‚ I recalled the incident yesterday. It was an ordinary Thursday. The birds chirped merrily‚ the trees swayed in the slight breeze and the usual morning gossip was going on in the school. One
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Autism As I began reading the articles on autism I knew that I did not know much about this disorder and who were the most affected by it. It affects 1 out of 88 children in the world and most of them are males who are four times more likely to develop ASD than females (“Autism Fact Sheet”). Early signs of Autism may appear in the first months of life‚ and children with autism do not reach maturation as fast as normal children. One of the most common signs is that a normal child will point to objects
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Autism‚ Ability‚ and Adaption: Asking the Right Questions Psychologytoday.com Dec. 4‚ 2011 Summary: The author of the article starts of by telling the reader about an episode of “60 minutes” that discusses autistics. In the episode‚ autistics who were thought to be unintelligent were proved to be as smart as normal kids their age through apps on the iPad. The problem wasn’t that the autistic weren’t intelligent; it was that they had no way to communicate their thoughts. The iPads kept them focused
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------------------------------------------------- CT 276 Understand How To Support Individuals With Autistic Spectrum Conditions CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM CONDITIONS Understand the meaning of the term “autistic spectrum conditions” THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM According to the National Institute of Mental Health‚ all children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders demonstrate
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Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions 1.1 - Explain why it is important to recognise that each person on the autistic spectrum has their own individual abilities needs strengths gifts and interests. If we know individual’s abilities‚ need‚ strengths‚ gifts and interests then we can focus on them‚ we can create environment‚ situations‚ we can pick activities to support and develop individual’s. 1.2 - Analyse the main diagnostic features of autistic spectrum conditions
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