Personal Narrative: My Child With Developmental Disabilities
Having a perfect child without any condition, disorder or sickness is what each parent is expecting. It is a heartbroken to hear that the child that you are expecting will be not like the other children, he or she will be a special child which will require special attention or perhaps all of your attention. This is not a good news to anyone regardless of the number of children these people may have. During my life, I had experienced working with the client with developmental disabilities in many occasions. First of all, the way this would be stating this experience is like this. Prior being a nurse, one of my jobs was special transportation services (STS) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. I had the privilege to drive the people with developmental disabilities to a certain special program that was organized by the county for these people. Although I spent a couple of years doing this job,
…show more content…
My duties were to medicate, feed, and assess them for any complication condition because most of them were completely dependent upon other for total care. There were some of these people that were abused either by their parents or by legal guardians. One of the strategy that was I applied to advocate for these people, I had to keep in touch by their social worker and to make sure these people can have at least one home visit a week. I was in the type of this by communicating to the school principal so these people can have a log when the visit was made, whom they meet with, and the schedule to the next visit. It was not an easy that easy. There was a huge complaint by the school principal that there is enough budget to hire a new social worker or the county may not support it. I had to make a few calls to certain elected officials to explain to them how important it is to this. That can save the county much money because prevention cost less than
My duties were to medicate, feed, and assess them for any complication condition because most of them were completely dependent upon other for total care. There were some of these people that were abused either by their parents or by legal guardians. One of the strategy that was I applied to advocate for these people, I had to keep in touch by their social worker and to make sure these people can have at least one home visit a week. I was in the type of this by communicating to the school principal so these people can have a log when the visit was made, whom they meet with, and the schedule to the next visit. It was not an easy that easy. There was a huge complaint by the school principal that there is enough budget to hire a new social worker or the county may not support it. I had to make a few calls to certain elected officials to explain to them how important it is to this. That can save the county much money because prevention cost less than