Students with mild intellectual disabilities usually exhibit adaptive behavioral skills significantly below average. Adaptive behavior includes social‚ conceptual‚ and practical skills use by people on a daily basis. Students with mild intellectual disabilities also have an IQ lower than 98% of their school age peers (Rosenberg M.S.‚ Westling‚ D.L.and McLeskey J.‚ 2012) Characteristics: Easily distracted Deficits in memory and motivation Poor social skills Low achievement in all academic
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UNIT 34: UNDERSTAND PHYSICAL DISABILITY – LEARNING OUTCOME 2 2.1 Define the term “physical disability” Physical disability pertains to total or partial loss of a person’s bodily functions (e.g. walking‚ gross motor skills‚ bladder control etc) and total or partial loss of a part of the body (e.g. a person with an amputation). Simply stated‚ a physical disability is any type of physical condition that significantly impacts one or more major life activities. That is a pretty broad definition‚ but the
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methods and tools 1.1 General definition changes ‚ the concept ‚ the scope of 1.2. Approaches to organizational change 1.3. Models of change management - "Theory E" (hard method changes) and "Theory O" (soft method) - organizational change strategy 1.4. Methods of organizational change 1.4.1. harsh methods 1.4.2 . Soft methods of organizational change 1.4.3 . Integral methods of organizational change 1.5 Reactive and proactive change management introduction Relevance of the topic .
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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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activities‚ provided a better understanding of the difficulties disabled people face every day. Although she struggled‚ she never let her disability affect her quality of life. In fact‚ she thought that it allowed her to see things and experience things in a much different way. Almost as if she was more appreciative and grateful than the average person. Peter Singer‚ although controversial‚ seems to have a way with words that Johnson takes a liking to. Though she does not support his philosophy
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The definition of Intellectual and developmental mental disabilities intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior‚ which covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 18. Intellectual functioning—also called intelligence—refers to general mental capacity‚ such as learning‚ reasoning‚ problem solving‚ and so on. One criterion to measure intellectual functioning
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CHAPTER 1 What Is Organization Development? Think for a moment about the organizations to which you belong. You probably have many to name‚ such as the company where you work‚ a school‚ perhaps a volunteer organization‚ or a reading group. You are undoubtedly influenced by many other organizations in your life‚ such as a health care organization like a doctor’s office or hospital‚ a church group‚ a child’s school‚ a bank‚ or the local city council or state government. Using an expansive definition
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feel reflect some of the contrasting models of disability which we have looked at in Units 1-4 of the course materials (E214‚ The Open University‚ 2010). The first resource comes from the National Autistic Society’s website and the second comes from the national newspaper The Guardian. The first resource (Appendix A) is an information page entitled ‘What is Asperger Syndrome’ and particularly focusses on the medical/deficit model of disability‚ a model which involves identifying symptoms‚ diagnosing
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MODELS OF DISABILITY STUDIES | MORAL-RELIGIOUS | BIO-MEDICAL | FUNCTIONAL | ENVIRON-MENTAL | SOCIO-POLITICAL | DEFINITION | Views disability as a punishment inflicted upon an individual or family by an external force. It can be due to misdemeanors committed by the disabled person‚ someone in the family or community group‚ or forbears. Birth conditions can be due to actions committed in a previous reincarnation. People are morally responsible for their own disability. | Focuses on purely biological
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Learning Organization By Subodh Shakya “A Learning Organization is one in which people at all levels‚individually and collectively‚ are continually increasing their capacity to produce results they really care about”-Peter Senge It is a fact that learning is a continuous process. What we learn today will be obsolete tomorrow and what we learn tomorrow will be obsolete the very next day and this cycle continues. Therefore‚ we must learn and explore new things every day to keep us up-to-date. Likewise
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