Barbie syndrome

Surprise Snuggles Over the summer I worked in a group home taking care of children with autism. It was most definitely a learn-on-the-job kind of position, one where you couldn’t be prepared enough outside of the house for. With my big heart and naïve mind, I didn’t know what to expect other than to try my hardest and love these kids who had been abandoned by their parents and families. After about three weeks there, I graduated from the easy 9-year-old girl (who really wasn’t that easy), to a…

The movie The Other Sister portrayed a child with an intellectual and developmental disability specifically down syndrome. Carla Tate was a child who behavior as a young child her parents could not handle. Because she grew up in a rich and affluent family, she was sent away when she started to become a problem. The movie starts with her coming back home to become part of society once again. Carla is a motivated person who wants to gain her independence but struggles against a mother that thinks…

Introduction According to Deris and Carlo (2013), the amount of children that have autism has increased from one in 150 to one in 88 from the year 2000 to 2008. As the amount of children that are born and diagnosed with autism rises, the pressure for teachers to cope with this disorder will rise as well. Children with autism have a wide variety of characteristics that they display such as, repeated and restrictive behaviors, delays in social interaction, symbolic imaginative play and language,…

The Reveal of the Matured and the Unraveled Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time undergoes psychological and emotional development with his coming-of-age, whereas Ed Boone’s character is unravelled as the author, Mark Haddon intertwines Christopher’s ambition to be independent with Ed’s secretive mannerism. In Vivienne Muller’s published academic journal Constituting Christopher: Disability Theory and Mark Haddon’s, Muller explains that children diagnosed with…

Reflection Paper: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck The memoir, “Expecting Adam” by Martha Beck focused on how the social, medical and spiritual model relates to Adam, son of Martha and John who has down syndrome. Both young parents of one and expecting another, graduate school at Harvard isn’t the only thing that is stressful in either one of their lives. When Martha discovered she was pregnant, it was different this time around versus when she was pregnant with…

information about the past of the family and how it has affected their present lives. House Rules tells the story of a family torn apart by a young man who cannot help but behave the way he does. Jacob is a 19-year-old teenager who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger’s is characterized as one, impaired social communication and/or interaction. Two, restricted and/or repetitive behaviors. These are all the characteristics one encounters when reading this book. Starting with…

article focuses on Tourette’s Syndrome (a neuropsychiatric disorder that affects roughly 1% of the population) and the relationship between increased gamma band activity in the thalamus promoted by deep brain stimulation and inhibition or minimization of tics and/or other symptoms of Tourette’s in both short-term and long-term evaluations. To clarify, tics are involuntary physical or verbal reactions that begin during early childhood and are characteristic of Tourette’s Syndrome. This research…

The authors classified the following as high prevalent disability: intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional or behavioral disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders and autism spectrum disorders. According to Raymond (2012) Intellectual disabilities “refers to significantly sub average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.” Furthermore, the IQ requirement the qualifies…

As a Site Coordinator at an after school program, it is easy for me to share my first hand observations with a vast majority of students. To begin, the layout of the site is not ideal seeing as the program is held in an Elementary school cafeteria. With 30 students enrolled in the program, it is easy for one to believe that chaos is easily accessible. Within the 30 students, ages range from 5 to 12. To avoid the said chaos, there is a lot of structure and a routine that is implemented. For…

This article is a descriptive review because it is focused on the leisure and social participation in children diagnosed with Down syndrome. The purpose of this study was to describe leisure participation for school-aged children with Down syndrome and to investigate how factors, classified by the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, influence their leisure participation (Oates, Bebbington, Bourke, Girdler, & Leonard, 2011, p. 1881).…