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    Intellectual Disabilities

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    Persons with Intellectual Disabilities or Intellectually Disabled Persons: Which is the Classifying Entity? As I write this‚ sitting in a solitaire corner of the library‚ I’m gently enclosing in my hand a simple rubber bracelet. My inspiration. Not the famous‚ bright yellow LiveStrong ones that Neil Armstrong once yielded‚ but a modest black band with contrasting white letters simply stating "I See You." This statement may seem unpretentious and bland‚ maybe even comical to some‚ but it has a sincere

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    Flowers for Algernon

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    journey within from a world of retardation to a world of great intelligence. Narrated through a series of empirical "Progress Reports"‚ Flowers for Algernon follows the intellectual and emotional rise and fall of Charlie Gordon‚ a young man born with an unusually low Intelligence Quotient (IQ)‚ as he becomes the first human pilot-study for an ambitious brain experiment. Charlie Gordon lives a life of comical‚ despondent and derisive experiences as he surfaces from mental darkness‚ through various phases

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    children to acquire skills for adult life and work. These experiences equip children to become successful adults. This goal applies as well with children without has special needs in Education like the child with autism‚ learning disability & Mental retardation which includes Down syndrome. Children with Down syndrome have the following difficulties: below average cognitive ability‚ poor in working memory‚ difficulty in producing clear speech and socially sensitive. These problems should be addressed

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    Drug Abuse estimates that 60 percent of women of childbearing age consume alcoholic beverages despite the fact that alcohol consumption during pregnancy is implicated in a wide range of birth defects and developmental disabilities‚ including mental retardation‚ physical abnormalities‚ and visual and auditory impairments. (Nevitt‚ 1996) Since most drug users are in the child bearing years‚ the cycle continues and drug compromised adults face the crucial job of child-rearing‚ while at the same time

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    Drinking During Pregnancy

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    affects growing up. Not only that‚ but it can affect the mother too. Even though fifty percent of the U.S. pregnancies are unplanned‚ it does not give a mother to keep drinking while she is with child. Because alcohol can affect the baby’s physical and mental health in and out of the womb‚ women must not drink during pregnancy. The baby’s health in the womb is very crucial. Drinking during pregnancy could put the woman and baby at risk for a miscarriage‚ stillbirth‚ premature birth‚ and FASDs. If a

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    hardest thing. I don’t know how I’m going to tell them. It was something I could have prevented." If Sabrina has FAS‚ she would be one of about 5‚000 children born in the nation this year with the debilitating syndrome‚ the leading preventable cause of mental

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    Essay On The Word Retard

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    Imagine what it would feel like if someone used your disability as an insult… Since the late 1800’s‚ the word ‘retard’ has been used - firstly as a clinical diagnosis to mean delay or hold back in term of progress‚ then later became a derogatory slang to mean stupid or dumb. While the word certainly was used to mean intellectually inhibited‚ many believe the everyday usage of the word “retard” is not directed toward people with disabilities‚ and therefore should be okay to incorporate into day

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    showed psychologists that infants forming attachments with a primary caregiver is essential for healthy social‚ physical and cognitive development. Such disruption could occur as a result of the infant being separated from their primary caregiver‚ mental illness in the family‚ stress‚ hospitalisation‚ adoption‚ the arrival of another sibling‚ divorce work‚ day-care and death. In many cases‚ disruption of attachment is unavoidable as infants must spend time in hospital‚ in day-care or with a babysitter

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    Carla’s family is wealthy‚ which permits her mother‚ already blinded to her daughter’s rather high-functioning abilities‚ to try and provide for Carla beyond her needs or desires‚ bringing forth the inevitable confrontations. What Carla may lack in mental ability she certainly makes up for in her insistence on being independent‚ even to living in her own apartment. But if this isn’t enough‚ into the mix comes a young man‚ equally challenged mentally‚ who moves Carla beyond anyone’s control. STRUCTURE

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    today. The three that I chose to discuss‚ not only peak my interest‚ but are also disorders that I plan to work with in the future: Klinefelter Syndrome‚ Fragile X Syndrome‚ and Downs Syndrome. All three disorders impair those that they affect‚ in mental‚ cognitive and physical aspects of their lives. Thankfully today we have a lot of helpful information that categorizes‚ assists and educates people on these disorders. Although these three disorders differ from each other‚ they also share a large

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