are people with disabilities. What is a disability? I used to think that a disability was just someone in a wheel chair or someone that was mentally retarded. According to the dictionary‚ a disability is 1. The condition of being disabled; incapacity. 2. Something that disable; handicap. 3. A disadvantage or deficiency‚ especially a physical or mental impairment that interferes with or prevents normal achievement in a particular area. Whether you were born with a disability or you become disabled
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1. Describe in detail what you know about the causes of disabilities prior to reading the homework assignment. (10 pts) There are many reasons why a person could have a disability. Some babies are born with different types of disabilities. They could be Down syndrome‚ Turners syndrome‚ Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder‚ and Fragile X syndrome or many more intellectual disabilities (ID) that a child could be born with. I believe that the I read the top three major causes of ID are Down syndrome‚ Fragile
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Personal distress and disability When determining whether behavior is abnormal or not we can consider whether it violates social norms or it makes people observing it feel threatened or distressed. Personal suffering can be used to explain if a person has some form of abnormal behavior. Disability is defined as whether a person impaired in some important aspects of their life‚ for example‚ work‚ relationships and so on. This can be defined as abnormal as well. Behavior can be considered
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Learning disabilities come in a wide spread variety. There are many characteristics that can help determine what specifically the child’s learning disability pertains to. Cognitively speaking‚ children can have attention‚ perception‚ memory‚ or information processing learning disabilities (Friend‚ 2011). Children that have are diagnosed with an attention learning disability tends to have trouble trying to focus on the task at hand because of the other surrounding noises and distractions may be too
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Asses the Functionalist explanations of Social Inequality. (40) Social Inequality refers to any difference between groups or individuals in society which results in one having inferior life chances than the other. Functionalists believe these inequalities are the result of the meritocracy we live in. This is a system based on the idea that social stratification is necessary and desirable for the society. Functionalists argue that inequalities have a purpose; they are functional for society. Functionalism
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Learning Needs – Learning needs have a huge effect on a child’s development. A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things in any area of life‚ not just at school. It affects how they understand information and how they communicate. A child with a general learning disability finds it more difficult to learn‚ understand and do things compared to other children of the same age. The degree of disability may vary greatly from some children who cannot or are unable to speak and will need
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Attachments and the Effects of Children with Disability When reading the article and the definitions of Attachment based on Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth we can debate the fact that how we make attachments plays a key role in the future as adults. Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their caregivers have a tremendous impact that continues throughout life. He suggested attachment also serves to keep the infant close to the mother‚ thus improving the child ’s chances
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Relations Act 1976‚ the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and three major statutory instruments protecting discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief‚ sexual orientation and age. This legislation has the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives‚ whose provisions it mirrors and implements.[1] It requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services‚ regardless of the protected characteristics of age‚ disability‚ gender reassignment
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When you hear the word "disabled"‚ you think someone who can’t function properly. Technically‚ you would be correct. A disability is any type of condition that makes it harder for someone to try and function in the world like other people do. It can be physical‚ mental‚ or educational. Disability rights didn’t always exist though. Ever since the 19th century‚ there were tons of problems and arguments before the U.S. finally made their decision about how to treat such a subject. I still don’t think
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Raising a Child with a Disability: Journal Entry #2: Summary: This article mainly examines ways in which parents can deal properly with the news of being told that their child has a disability. There are a few stories in the article which emphasize the way the parents felt when they found out about their child’s disability. In most cases‚ the parents felt shattered‚ overwhelmed and completely shocked. The article explained that parents have an expectation of having that "perfect" child and
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