the average humans from rare disorders or illnesses which separate them from living a normal life. Did you know one in five Americans experienced some sort of mental illness in 2010‚ according to a new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration? About 5 percent of Americans have suffered from such severe mental illness that it interfered with day-to-day school‚ work or family. My mother who has mentoring an intergraded classroom for nearly 14 years as an early child
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Retard I find it interesting that saying somebody has cancer would not be taken as a joke and yet using another disease such as mental retardation as an insult is common among society and many do not realize how offensive it is. The term mental retardation acquired pejorative and shameful connotations over the last few decades due to the use of “retard” as an insult. A “retard” will usually suffer ridicule from society because people fear what they do not understand. Those who
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age (more adolescents and young adults are aggressive than children)‚ and degree of disability (more people with severe cognitive impairments are aggressive than people with less severe cognitive impairments) Aggressive behavior in people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix F Autism and Mental Retardation Respond to the following: 1. List the primary features of autism. The primary features are emotional and social reciprocity. This includes characteristics such as seeming indifferent to physical care and loving emotional interests which others provide to an autistic individual‚ verbal and other communication and language impairments and inability to use and to speak. Additional characteristics in autism include a lack
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix F Autism and Mental Retardation Respond to the following: 1. List the primary features of autism. These are emotional and social reciprocity. This includes such characteristics as seeming indifference to physical care and loving emotional interests which others provide to an autistic individual‚ verbal and other communication and language impairments and an inability to use speech. Echolalia may be exhibited in those who can speak. Echolalia
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parasite found in soil and feces of infected cats 5.) Syphilis‚ a sexually transmitted bacterial infection can cause CP 6.) Exposures to toxins such as mercury 7.) other problems that may increase the risk of CP‚ such as thyroid problems‚ mental retardation‚ and seizures. There are certain illnesses in the infant that can increase the risk of CP such as: 1.) if the newborn contracts bacterial meningitis or viral encephalitis 2.) severe or untreated jaundice 3.) premature birth – especially
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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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made the people realize that they couldn’t keep Lucy away from her father. (Herskovitz‚ Soloman‚ & Nelson‚ 2001) The main character‚ Sam Dawson‚ is an autistic 40-year-old man and is in the young adulthood developmental stage. He may have developed mental disabilities‚ but he does not have bad health and is physically fit. However‚ Sam does not always make healthy food choices‚ as he likes to go to IHOP every Wednesday and eat pancakes with a lot of sugary fruit toppings. Sam has very good gross motor
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Forrest Gump is a film that portrays the life of a man who has borderline intellectual functioning‚ from when he was young‚ all through his adulthood. Forrest was the victim of ongoing bullying and abuse from the mean-spirited children in his area. The movie shows the challenges he faced and how he overcame them‚ some with luck‚ but others with his ability; despite the fact that he has an IQ of 75. The story plays off in a series of decades in the life of Forrest Gump‚ a slow-witted yet athletically
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can inflict serious‚ permanent physical and mental damage on her child. When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol she is making her child drink also. In knowing how Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be prevented‚ what the symptoms are‚ and who and what make up the risk factors fetal alcohol syndrome can be better understood. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome states "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is the name given to a group of physical and mental birth defects that are the direct result of
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