Such as in the case of the Vietnamese who still live near contaminated water and soil once doused in Agent Orange as shown below‚ have a higher rate of birth defects than normal. These include cleft palate‚ spina bifida‚ Williams’ Disease and many more. Plenty of soldiers who worked with Agent Orange came back only to be diagnosed with prostate cancer or a litany of other diseases including Hodgkin’s Disease‚ Parkinson’s Disease‚ and soft tissue
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Humans breathe and speak daily without a thought of what really goes into this one aspect of communication. Even though breathing and speaking may seem like a mindless process‚ there are a number of muscles‚ ligaments and body parts that go into the mechanisms that make life what it is. In order to live and speak‚ we must be able to breathe. Respiration is the act of breathing. The act of drawing in a breath‚ or inspiration is the process of in-taking air. Air is taken in through the upper airways
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benzodiazepines‚ opioids can be administered to enhance sedation and relief pain. With respect to the case study‚ benzodiazepines might have minor side effects on pregnant mothers. Some research studies found an increase in risk of malformation and cleft palate in newborns due to benzodiazepines (Dolovich et al. 1998). If used shortly before delivery‚ newborns might suffer from floppy infant syndrome‚ where the infant experiences lethargy (ACOG 2008). Ancillary drugs are also used to reduce the risk
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Introduction to Phonetics Speaking is such a normal part of our everyday life that we usually do not stop to think about what we are doing. It could be compared to walking: once you have learned how to do it‚ it becomes an automatic action that does not require conscious thought. If we had to think carefully about every single step it takes to produce speech‚ it would take us hours to form a single sentence. Luckily‚ there is no need for this‚ as long as we stick to our native language or dialect
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while the characters remained the same. Not all Chinese characters are radical-phonetic compounds‚ but a good majority of them are. Phonetics has three main branches: 1. Articulatory phonetics‚ concerned with the positions and movements of the lips‚ tongue‚ vocal tract and
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facial deformity. Growing up he had the aspects other children had but also faced surgery his rare medical facial deformity‚ which he refers to as "mandibulofacial dysostosis"‚ is more commonly known as Treacher Collins syndrome. He also has a cleft palate which causes him to eat differently‚ as obvious‚ other students took notice quickly. Attending school is already difficult as it is especially since Auggie was
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Erickson stages of child development. Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Erikson’s theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. Erikson theory focuses on physical‚ emotional‚ and psychological stages of development. According to Erikson personality developed in eight developmental stages throughout life span and the need
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Speech disorders in young children are early indicators that give reason to students having difficulty in aspects of cognition. Speech is not only a motor skill‚ but also a cognitive skill in the form that speech is language that comes from within the brain. “Speech problems and reading disorders are linked‚ suggesting that speech problems may potentially be an early marker of later difficulty in associating graphemes with phonemes.” (Foy & Mann 2011) The brocoa’s area of the brain is where speech
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What is communication? Interactive nature: it is a give and take process‚ conveying and receiving thoughts and ideas (exchange of verbal and nonverbal between speaker and listener) Sociolinguistics: cultural identity‚ setting‚ participants‚ context‚ social‚ and environmental factors (study of social language) Language: “A socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and a rule governed combination of those symbols” ----Language (ability
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SECONDHAND SMOKE Secondhand smoke is defines as the smoke inhaled from a lit cigarette‚ cigar‚ or pipe‚ and the smoke exhaled by a smoker. Non-smokers that inhale second hand smoke actually breathes in almost the same amount of chemicals as a smoker. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ more than 50 of which are known to cause cancer.6 Chemicals that cause cancer include: Arsenic‚ Benzene‚ Beryllium‚ Butadiene‚ Cadmium‚ Chromium‚ Ethylene Oxide‚ Nickel‚ Polohium-210
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