Forrest Gump is a film that portrays the life of a man who has borderline intellectual functioning‚ from when he was young‚ all through his adulthood. Forrest was the victim of ongoing bullying and abuse from the mean-spirited children in his area. The movie shows the challenges he faced and how he overcame them‚ some with luck‚ but others with his ability; despite the fact that he has an IQ of 75. The story plays off in a series of decades in the life of Forrest Gump‚ a slow-witted yet athletically
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played in FAS? 1. Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Explained Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a lifelong‚ most common non-genetic yet preventable set of physical‚ mental and neurobehavioral birth defects associated with alcohol consumption during pregnancy and is the leading known cause of mental retardation and birth defects. (Stratton‚ K.‚ Howe‚ C.‚ & Battaglia‚ F.‚ 2004) The South African National Council on Alcoholism defines FAS as a term used to describe children who have
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anger/upset to confused distress. Penn’s Sam appeared to be a composite of many different aspects of mental retardation blended into one character. He was believable and did not take his representation overtly overboard. In the film are two actors who in real life have developmental disabilities: Brad Silverman and Joseph Rosenberg. Silverman has Down syndrome and Rosenberg has an undefined mental retardation. They both acted their roles but within their acting their personal handicaps were displayed.
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as the focus of this paper are the mentally retarded or intellectually disabled. According to the tenth revision of the WHO (world health Organization): intellectual disability (ID) is a disorder defined by the presence of incomplete or arrested mental development‚ principally characterized by the deterioration of concrete functions at each stage of development and that contribute to the overall level of intelligence‚ such as cognitive‚ language‚ motor‚ and socialization functions; in this anomaly
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Fragile X syndrome‚ also called Martin-Bell syndrome‚ is a syndrome of X-linked mental retardation. In 1943‚ Martine and Bell described a pedigree of X-linked mental disability. Chris and Weesam were first to sight an unusual “maker X chromosome” with mental disability in 1969. It is also the most common known cause of autism. Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication. It can also cause restricted and repetitive behavior. It all starts before
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causes autism and mental retardation among boys. Some symptoms of FXS are severe intellectual disabilities as well as physical symptoms such as a larger than usual face‚ large ears‚ large testicles and behavioral characteristics such as stereotypic movements and social anxiety. Fragile X syndrome is associated with the CGG trinucleotide expanding affecting the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene on the X chromosome‚ resulting in a failure to express the fragile X mental retardation protein which is
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ecological conditions on the one hand and mental retardation on the other. His interests in mental retardation led to books such as The Cloak of Competence‚ which will be analyzed in this paper and Lives in Process. His ecological interests produced The Individual in Cultural Adaptation‚ followed by Rules‚ Exceptions and Social Order. He then turned his attention to studies of deviant behavior (Alone Together) and mental illness (Changing Perspectives in Mental Illness with S. Plog). In recent years
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Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities defined intellectual disability as being a person that has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating‚ taking care of one’s self‚ and social skills. Also‚ all of these limitations and more cause a person to learn and develop slower than any typical child. Autism is defined as a mental condition‚ present from early childhood‚ characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships. It also is a
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The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure Scientific Writing June 2010 The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure Introduction: Alcohol is a drug with a depressant effect. Alcohol can negatively affect your brain‚ liver‚ central nervous system‚ and heart. The immediate effects of alcohol consumption are delayed reflexes and slurred speech. Since it is a depressant‚ alcohol slows down your
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Bell discovered that a specific form of mental retardation was X-linked. Both go on to describe a pedigree of X-linked mental disability. (Martin & Bell‚ 1943). Fragile X Syndrome has not been around for that long‚ actually less than eighty years. Later in 1969‚ Herbert Lubs a doctor developed the chromosomal test for Fragile X chromosome. Lubs accomplished this chromosomal test by first noticing an unusual "marker X chromosome" in association with mental disability. The chromosomal test was not
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