Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal alcohol syndrome is a neurological condition caused by exposure to alcohol during pregnancy. This condition has a lifelong severe effect on the fetus‚ affecting a child’s physical‚ emotional‚ and neurological development. The term fetal alcohol spectrum disorders is used to encompass the range of disabilities associated with exposure to alcohol in utero‚ and includes the diagnosis alcohol-related neurodevelopment disorder (ARND). Signs and symptoms that a child
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My Literacy of Volunteering at the Special Olympics Normally when someone thinks of volunteering at the Special Olympics‚ they probably think of the fact that it is community service and it is something that looks good on applications for a job or college. What they do not think about is how rewarding and incredible the experience actually is. Growing up‚ I had always been around mentally challenged adults and children because my mom works with them through Central Valley Regional Center as an
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Marisa Quiroga Putman Hour 2.6 15 November 2016 Argument Paper Ethics are what guides your conscience. It’s the right and wrong; good or bad; to follow or not follow the law. Charlie is a mouse with low intelligence in the book "Flowers of Algernon."He agreed to get an operation done to himself to make his intelligence grow. His intelligence grew‚ but after a few weeks started to decrease Algernon was someone who got tested be for Charlie and is now died. Charlie Gordon’s doctor’s didn’t act ethically
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A Classroom full of flowers Janice Anderson Connolly On my first day of teaching‚ all my classes were going well. Being a teacher was going to be cinch‚ I decided. Then came Period 7‚ the last class of the day. As I walked toward the room‚ I heard furniture crash. Rounding the corner‚ I saw one boy pinning another to the floor. "Listen‚ you retard!" yelled the one on the bottom. "I don’t give a damn about your sister!" "You keep your hands off her‚ you hear me?" the boy on top threatened. I
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Fetal alcohol syndrome refers to a group of conditions caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy (CDC‚ 2015). This set of conditions (FAS) encompasses a full range of prenatal alcohol damage that can vary from mild to severe. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can cause physical deformities‚ behavioral problems‚ learning disabilities‚ motor or neurological deficits‚ or a combination of these effects (CDC‚ 2015). Alcohol falls under the chemical category of teratogens‚ which enters the mother’s bloodstream
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afe ire S guard h rs dults Boar d gA in Glouce uth ste o S Easy read South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board Winterbourne View Hospital A Serious Case Review By Margaret Flynn The Winterbourne View Hospital Serious Case Review What happened? Winterbourne View was a hospital in South Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism whose behaviour sometimes made their families and professionals worry. It was meant to help by assessing
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Autism‚ also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD)‚ is five complex brain disorders that affects a person’s behavior‚ communication‚ and social skills. Autism is caused from very early brain development. The most obvious stages of autism come anywhere between age two and three‚ and lasts throughout their whole life. The Centers for Disease Control said that ASDs were‚ "Developmental disabilities that cause substantial impairments in social interaction and communication and the presence of unusual
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In the United States of America‚ one out of every seven hundred and fifty children is born with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Mothers who consume alcohol anytime during pregnancy‚ puts their children at risk for multiple constellations of abnormalities when they are born. A common condition observed in children affected is optic nerve hypoplasia‚ which basically is the underdevelopment of the optic nerve during pregnancy. The affected child has abnormal shaped eyes that appear closer together
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I Am Sam This movie was the most wonderful and accurate portrayal you will ever find of a parent with a disability caught in the legal and social services system. I Am Sam is a story about a single guy who is suddenly faced with raising his newborn daughter after the mother leaves them both just outside the hospital when the baby was born. With help from his friends and his neighbor‚ Sam and his daughter Lucy manage to stay under the radar of social services for several years. After some
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Charlie Gordon is the main character in Flowers for Algernon‚ a story in which he is operated on to become more intelligent and to help him function “normally” in society. However‚ intelligence does not make a person happier‚ kinder‚ or generally better. One example that supports this theory is that Charlie’s friends from the factory are of average intelligence‚ but aren’t nice. Miss Kinnian is of average intelligence and is extremely kind‚ so there’s no correlation between intelligence and behavior
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