Cleft Lip/Palate 1. The CDC defines these as birth defects that occur when a baby’s lip and/or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy. 2. Causes listed by Medline include genes from either parent‚ drugs‚ viruses‚ and other toxins. Risk factors from the CDC include smoking‚ diabetes‚ and use of certain epilepsy medications like topiramate and valproic acid. 3. Usually‚ Mayo Clinic says‚ a cleft is immediately identified at birth through physical assessment‚ though occasionally submucous cleft
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Amber Vargas SESE 240 Movie Review Radio Based on a true story‚ the movie Radio follows a young man named James Robert Kennedy. It opens up showing a bit of insight in his life as he walks through town with a cart avoiding eye contact‚ insults‚ and speaking to others. He gets called a moron by a man‚ and children are shooed away in the first few minutes. It is clear he is different from the people he is around as he walks daily with a cart full of his things and his radio. Walking past the
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The Greenwich Association for Retarded Citizens (G.A.R.C.) of Greenwich High The Greenwich Association for Retarded Citizens (G.A.R.C.) of Greenwich High is a group of students interested in interacting with disabled students. These students go to the high school as well‚ and look forward to getting to know us. Each of the students have different disabilities but they each have the desire to make friends. This group is totally volunteer basis for all of it’s members‚ no one has to attend
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1 in every 6 U.S. children are diagnosed with a developmental disability‚ according to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention study published online in the journal Pediatrics Monday. The represents an increase of 17% between 1997 and 2008 alone. Child development refers to the process in which children go through changes in skill development during predictable time periods‚ called developmental milestones. Developmental delay occurs when children have no reached these milestones
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Analysis of ”the mother of a child in question” The short story is about a social worker who comes to a Pakistani family. The daughter is mentally retarded‚ but the mother will not realize this‚ and tries to convince the social worker Stephen Bentley‚ that she has to go in a normal school like the rest of her children‚ because she doesn’t see that there is anything wrong with her little girl. The short story shows how difficult it can be for a mother to accept her children’s flaws‚ and it shows
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John Steinbeck shows how important a friendship is and how much two people can support each other to survive. Take this bond away and it will create a difficult and almost impossible journey for the two men in this novel. John Steinbeck portrays Lennie and George as having the greatest friendship in the world and while George claims to not need Lennie‚ he knows that he needs Lennie as much as Lennie needs him. The mutual relationship between George and Lennie is a genuine friendship between two
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Miggles was generous and compassionate and a blessing to Jim‚ or was she? While eight people were traveling trying to get to their destination they were hindered due to the bridge being out. They were told to go to Miggles to stay. They spend quite a bit of time trying to find Miggles while traveling along the roadside. It appeared to them that Miggles was hiding and did not want to be found. Once they finally arrived at Miggles’s house they found the place to be empty with the exception of
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Chapter 1: Prompt #2: This is the first chapter of the novel and it holds the very fundamentals for the upcoming story. The significance of this chapter is the fact that we are introduced to the main protagonist of the novel‚ Holden‚ who clearly seems to be dealing with a lot of psychological stress. Without this chapter‚ we would not be able to dig into Holden’s background and learn about his drop out at Pencey Prep‚ him losing all the equipment’s for the fencing team or the fact that his relationship
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Cerebral palsy encompasses a group of conditions that are caused by problems in brain development. Disturbances in the brain usually occur during fetal or infant brain development and effects movement and motor control in children (Lisovska‚ 2016). The cerebral cortex‚ which is the part of the brain responsible for directing muscle movement‚ is damaged and cerebral palsy thus develops. Cerebral palsy can be classified into four types which are made distinct because of its location and abnormality
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Society’s opinion on something is never fixed. It is unstable and constantly changing quickly due to new ideas and information. Certain ideas on things such as how to treat people different than you that was believed thousands of years ago is no longer believed today. The way society has treated people with disabilities has drastically changed over the years. Daniel Keyes was born in 1927 and as a young adult he entered the U.S Maritime Marines to help pay for schooling. After that he got his B
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