Mental retardation

The concepts of the proposal were founded on the possibility of the use of the Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) in helping people suffering from developmental disabilities. The research would be aimed to determine the effective use of the LMA design of body, effort, shape, and space, ordinarily called the BESS approach as a remedy for the developmental disability conditions such as autism and Down syndrome (ADTA n.d). When taking a LMA class and volunteering at the Arc I became motivated to further…

Women who consume alcohol while pregnant are subjecting their unborn babies to be at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome causing disabilities and abnormal conditions Shantelle Rodrigues Bridgewater State University Heal 199 Professor Marrella April 15, 2015 Currently in the United States, one out of eight young women has exposed their child to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). It is a congenital syndrome caused by excessive consumption of alcohol by the mother during pregnancy.…

Fetal Alcoholic Syndrome Fetal alcoholic syndrome is caused by women who drink alcohol during their pregnancy. Alcohol passes through the placenta and is absorbed by the fetus. Drinking before finding out that they are pregnant still harms the fetus. Approximately 40,000 children each year are born with fetal alcohol syndrome. Statistics verify that 1 in 9 women report excessive drinking of alcohol during their first trimester of pregnancy. Children born with fetal alcohol syndrome are…

at the causes of FASD so that an attempt can be made to prevent it from occurring. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder includes many different symptoms and consequences, which differ in levels of severity; these symptoms are physical, behavioral, and mental and have an effect on the child’s growth throughout his or her life. While there is not a specific treatment that is prescribed for a diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, other medications…

If a child is suspected to have a developmental delay they will be evaluated. These skills are age related and will vary by age. The evaluations will take place in such areas as gross motor skills, which encompasses the usage of large muscle groups for movement. These movements include walking, running, and sitting. Gross motor skills are also important for balance. Fine motor skills are motor movements that use smaller more refined muscle movement. These would be using pincer skills needed to…

Even though what we do know shows that with early intervention we can substantially improve the individual and their families’ wellbeing. Down syndrome occurs in one out of eight hundred live births, and is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation (National Institutes of Health, 2005). Idea Definition Downs syndrome can fall under either the IDEA definition for Intellectual Disability which says an individual displays: “significantly sub average general intellectual functioning,…

The Impact of Sight Word Drills on Reading Fluency for Students with Intellectual Disabilities Jonae Alexander Concordia University A Research Report Presented to The Graduate Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Masters in Education Concordia University - Portland January 2015 Review of the Literature This paper focuses on the impact of sight word trials on reading fluency of students with learning disabilities. More specifically, this paper focuses on…

The final part to this study is the rationale for using out-of-level testing. There are three main themes to this sections. The first is, overly difficult tests promote increased guessing and student frustration, which reduced the accuracy of the test results. The basic question is whether students who score low on grade level tests would score higher on lower level of the same test. To answer this question much of the research on out-of-level testing has examined the effects on raw scored and…

have learning problems. Also according to Wikipedia retard is pejorative word that has the meaning of a person with mental disabilities (Retard n.d.b.). If the word retard is used in a medical practice I would not mind it since the definition is logical and I agree with the medical definition. Urban dictionary is another source that gives the definition as a person born with a mental condition (Retard n.d.c.). These three sources all have similar definitions and they were the definitions I…

Rosa’s Centre is an organization that offer day programs to adult from the age of 21 and above, such as learning how to read and write, how to socialize, how to use computers, encouragements in terms of personal hygiene, how to communicate with people and amongst their peers, and encouraging to exercise for healthy growth. This organization serves residents of peel region that is challenged by physical, intellectual, or developmental disabilities in order for them to achieve their independence,…