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    August 2012 Nancy Mairs on Disability in the Media Nancy Mairs’ searched for months for something on television or in the media that represented women like her. When I say "women like her"‚ this means disabled‚ she is a forty-three year old woman with Multiple Sclerosis. Her purpose for writing this is to reveal how the media takes the disability and excludes everything else about the person with the disability. Real people are much more complex‚ and their disability is not all that they are.

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    characteristics of an individual with physical disabilities. Choose one physical disability area you are interested in learning more about (e.g. spina bifida or cerebral palsy) to elaborate on. How might the characteristics of your chosen disorder affect development and learning? What accommodations could an educator make to address the needs of a student with a physical disability? What related services might support the needs of a student with this disability? What assistive technology tools or devices

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    People with a learning disability remained segregated and isolated‚ and the standard of care was extremely poor. This remained the case right up until the closure of the long-stay hospitals. In 1971 the Government published a paper “Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped”

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    Sarah Lemon SPE-359 wk 2 Brian Berger July 14‚ 2013 What is the definition of a learning disability and who should qualify to be special education? What assessments should be made to be able to know what child belongs where? This is what we are going to explore in this paper. We want to see exactly who qualifies and how to go about assessing what needs can be met by choosing to place a child in special education or leaving in general education and making some modifications

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    are tested and then put into the appropriate group as to the disability that they have. There are several different types of special needs such as autism‚ behavior disorders‚ Cerebral Palsy‚ Down Syndrome‚ Alcohol related brain injuries‚ and brain injuries in general. With a degree in special education you would be able to cover the training for each of these disabilities and be able to handle the children that have these disabilities in your classroom. No matter what‚ when you are faced with a

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    Argument Against Prenatal Genetic Screening In this essay‚ I will argue that prenatal screening for disabilities for the intent of actively choosing to have a child without a disability is immoral. By disability‚ I mean the definition provided in a medical dictionary: “A disadvantage or deficiency‚ especially a physical or mental impairment that prevents or restricts normal achievement”. This does not include diseases that are considered inevitably and irreversibly fatal‚ nor does it include birth

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    Bio-Psychosocial Model

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    My understanding of the 3 different models (medical‚ social and bio-psychosocial is that the medical model views disability as an individual problem.This medical model approach is based on the belief that the difficulties associated with a disability should be placed on the disabled person‚ and that the disabled person should make extra efforts to care for themselves and not inconvenience anyone else. An example of the medical model: If an individual with a wheelchair is unable to gain access into

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    The Economic and Social Benefits and the Barriers of Providing People with Disabilities Accessible Clean Water and Sanitation Jacqueline Noga 1 and Gregor Wolbring 2‚* 1 2 Faculty of Medicine‚ University of Calgary‚ 3330 Hospital Drive NW‚ Calgary‚ Alberta‚ T2N 4N1‚ Canada; E-Mail: jmnoga@ucalgary.ca Faculty of Medicine‚ Department Community Health Sciences‚ Stream of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies‚ University of Calgary‚ 3330 Hospital Drive NW‚ Calgary‚ Alberta‚ T2N

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    March 12‚ 2012 The Inclusion Classroom The word inclusion has been given many different definitions. There is full inclusion and partial inclusion‚ full inclusion is where all students are in a regular fulltime classroom‚ regardless of their disability or the severity of their condition. Partial inclusion is defined as the situation in which disabled students are removed from regular classrooms and participate in a classroom for special education services. However‚ it is important to note that

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    a birth defect or developmental disability. Birth defects cause changes in one or more parts of the body and can have serious and adverse effects on the developing child. The defect can cause a permanent disability that affects health‚ functional ability and/or cognitive ability. Defects can affect the way a body looks and works (CDC). When a child is born with a physical or developmental disability‚ the whole family is affected. Regardless of the type of disability a child has‚ these children are

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