Congenital Heart Defects in Children Imagine giving birth to a beautiful‚ healthy looking‚ baby girl and holding her in your arms for the first time. Now imagine a doctor telling you that this little miracle has a possible life threatening congenital heart defect. I can because this happened to me. My daughter suffers from three different congenital heart defects. According to the American Medical Association Family Medical Guide‚ about 8 out of every 1‚000 children are born with heart abnormalities
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Disability Rights Movement In 1817‚ the American School for Deaf was founded in Hartford Connecticut. This was the first school for disabled children in the Western Hemisphere. Although this was not the beginning of the Disability Rights Movement‚ it was a start to society‚ making it possible for people to realize that there were those with disabilities out there in the world and something had to be done. The Disability Rights Movement fought for equal access‚ opportunity‚ consideration‚ and basic
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SOAS Disability Equality Scheme 2010 - 2012 Appendix 3 Brief summary of three MODELS OF DISABILITY The Charity Model of disability The Charity Model casts the disabled person forever in the “poor unfortunate” role. It emphasises and encourages dependence on others rather than independence – one might say it is a form of “killing with kindness” since if this is taken to extremes the disabled person may lose those life skills they had and become increasingly dependent. The disabled person
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Gabriel Childers Ms. Boyer Mw 12:30 Essay 2 February 25‚ 2013 “Saving Sourdi” The story “Saving Sourdi” is by May-Lee Chai describes the protagonist Nea. Nea has very noticeable qualities‚ but the one that fits her best is being “protective”. Nea is very protective over her older sister Sourdi. First‚ Nea is protective in the family restaurant. Nea and her sister Sourdi is working late in the restaurant as some
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For someone that has been diagnosed with a learning disability‚ they may feel that it takes over their lives. But with the right help it will not affect their ultimate success in life. In this research essay I will be talking about what a learning disorder is‚ how to detect that a child has a learning disorder‚ and how it affects children in school and ways to treat them. The four common types of learning disability I will be discussing are Dyslexia‚ Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder‚ Dysgraphia
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Infant Mortality & Social Justice The presentation on Infant mortality and social justice was full of meaningful information on topics that many of us did not know about. Throughout this one hour presentation‚ the audience lived an amazing experience while learning about Infant mortality‚ and other related topics. The presentation started off with a video on Kim Anderson‚ a successful Atlanta lawyer. Through pregnancy‚ woman must act correctly if they want to have healthy
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MED294 | Ventricular Septal Defect | VSD | Ashley Shutz 10/7/2010 | Bibliography 1. www.righthealth.com/topic/Septal_Defect 2. www.medterms.com/script 3. www.bing.com/health/article/mayo 4. www.AHA.com/ventricularseptaldefect 5. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_septal_defect 6. www.childrenshospital.org Ventricular Septal Defect or VSD is commonly called the “hole in the heart.” It is a defect in the septum between the two ventricles of the left and
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“Saving” The Indians What the white reformers hoped to achieve with the breakup of the reservations and with schools was assimilation. The saw that through assimilation that the Indians could be “white”. In instructions to Indian Agents and Superintendents of Indian Schools. The source states that the people thought that if the Indians were destined to become part of national life and not viewed as Indians but to make them Americans was through a system of schooling for the Indian youth. They
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easily secure attachment with their infant if the birth of a child meet their expectation in terms of gender‚ appearance‚ personality and social capabilities. Some of the parental behaviors affecting infant attachment are eye contact hovers‚ names infant‚ touches infant‚ smiles at infant‚ sings to infant‚ expresses pride
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NATURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY Intellectual Disability (ID) is also known as “Mental Retardation” (MR). The term MR was replaced to the term ID by the doctors‚ professionals and health care practitioners because of the undesirable or negative connotation in our society. In 2010‚ President Obama signed the S. 2781 (111th): Rosa’s Law‚ A bill to change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability‚ and to change references to a mentally retarded
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