understood for someone that can’t speak for them. My paper will define advocacy and how human service professionals utilized the term. I will discuss how advocacy is used in the disability population‚ and issues within the population. I will further discuss a good recommendation that will hopefully help a individual with a disability. In conclusion based on all the information I gather‚ and my own personal experiences‚ I will come up with good sound decisions to assist those in other diverse population
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Medical Model The Medical Model of health tries to treat people through the use of medicine and science‚ and it doesn’t take into account the social and emotional factors of how the injury‚ illness‚ or disease was caused or brought on. It looks at the root cause of the problem‚ rather than telling the patient how it happened so they can avoid making the same mistake again e.g. If a Smoker contracts throat Cancer‚ if he’s not told it’s caused by smoking‚ they he wont know not to smoke again
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The group facilitation of Jaeger’s and Bowman’s Understanding Disability was well executed. The groups’ use of games during the presentation to test students’ pre- and post- knowledge of disability policy was an innovative use of learning tools that engaged the class. The discussion of the history of federal disability policies was accurate and laid a foundation for the ensuing discussions about how social workers can play a critical role in addressing the injustice many differently abled Americans
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Journal of Learning Disabilities Juliana M. Taymans and Sagnaka Kosaraju both journalist believe that if the instructors attempt to further their education it will enhance their literacy skills and improve employment opportunities for adults with learning disabilities. Only 5% full time and 12% part time instructors in the adult basic programs have a certification in special education. (Tamassia et al‚ 2007). They feel educators in the ABE program need adequate information for different strategies
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1. Names and Definitions- -IDEA or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a four-part legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. -An IEP or Individualized Educational Plan/Program is a document that is developed for each school-aged child who is eligible for special education and related services‚ and describes the educational; program that has been designed to fit an individual
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Case Study: Specific Learning Disabilities Criteria Name: Jennifer Birthdate: 12/17/92 Jennifer is a 2nd grader being referred for possible learning disabilities in reading. Jennifer has always attended Sand Hill Elementary and has not repeated a grade. She is eight years old. She has been screened for vision and hearing problems and was found to have normal vision and hearing. Her teachers have described her as cooperative and likable. She does not exhibit behavioral problems. Jennifer
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This is where the instructional model called Tactical Games comes into play and can be a physical education teachers best friend. Explanation and Overview The Tactical Game Model uses student interest in the game structure to promote the skill development and tactical knowledge needed for competent game performance. Basically there are three main objectives with this teaching model; Interest and excitement‚ Knowledge to empower
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Selecting for Deafness In the article Deaf Lesbians‚ “Designer Disability‚” and the Future of Medicine‚ Julian Savulescu discusses the morality behind selecting offspring with a disability. With the advancement in genetic studies‚ the ability to test for genetic diseases is becoming more readily available to couples having children (Savulescu‚ p. 771). Also increasing is the ability for couples to purposely select to have a child with a disability‚ and this choice is sometimes referred to as the creation
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learning disabilities are problems with age-appropriate reading‚ spelling‚ and/or writing” Learning disabilities do not always define the intelligence of an individual or their potential abilities. One of the underlying causes of learning disabilities are due to congenital issues such as differences developmentally in the brain. One of the most commonly known language-based learning disability with importance to reading is Dyslexia‚ however this is not solely the only language-learning disability and
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disorder and the biomedical model portrays one way in which it can be understood. The biomedical model focuses on biological factors alone in an attempt to explain an illness or a disorder. It describes illnesses as disturbances within the human body that can be altered and corrected. Very unlike the biopsychosocial model‚ it doesn’t include other factors that may contribute to a disorder such as their psychological state or their social context. The biomedical model focuses on activities within
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