Causes of autism

A speech pathologist can be a part of the referral stage if the child has a communication disorder. In the “Special Education Process” you tube video by Parent Network it states that, “the Committee on Special Education includes the child’s parents, Special Ed teachers, regular education teachers and other professionals.” Being a speech pathologist I would be included under the professional and specialist category. My job is to help children meet their communication needs. General Education…

In the words of Nelson Mandela, “Even if you have a terminal illness, don’t sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness you have.” However, due to discrimination, less services and programs, and less awareness, intellectually disabled people can not enjoy life and challenge their illness. More government officials need to back bills which help disabled Americans live life the way it is supposed to be lived. Public awareness for disabilities is one way intellectually disabled people…

According to the American Community Survey, “The overall rate of people with disabilities in the US population in 2015 was 12.6%” (2). Although this percentage may seem insignificant, that number translates to well over millions of citizens who have disabilities. Considering this, everyone is likely to encounter a person with a disability at some point in their lives, so it is important that they are aware of how to be inclusive and interact with them. They may be people, but the society has…

Autism can be referred to as a puzzle piece. The puzzle piece represents the medical mystery and complexity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Whether your child has autism, or your child is in the classroom with a child that has autism, it is a subject that we must all familiarize ourselves as well as our children. As an educator, I see autism prevalence in schools on the rise. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) new data has been released that shows 1…

Turner's syndrome is a rare condition that affects females. It results when a sex chromosome (X chromosome) is either missing or partially missing. Turner’s syndrome can cause a lot of different medical problems such as short height, puberty failure, heart defects, learning disabilities and social adjustment problems. It is sometimes diagnosed before birth, during infancy or during their early childhood. Occasionally the diagnosis is delayed until the teen or young adult years in those who have…

My research topic I’m doing is on dyslexia. In case if you’re wondering what is dyslexia is I will explain four types of dyslexia topics and give some details about all four. Dyslexia is a term for some people who has mentally disorders that causes struggling in learning how to read, observe letters that can be seen backwards. Languishing dyslexia could process through the mindset within the growth to the brain to function to its natural ability to gain improvement with highly…

(Hallahan, et al., 2014). For some students with ASD, a small change in environment will result in an angry outburst. In order to accommodate for this situation, it is important for the teacher to keep the classroom the same. Lifespan issues related to Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD can have lifelong effects on an individual that must be considered from childhood through adulthood. This discussion has been separated into a subcategory for early childhood issues and adulthood issues in order to…

The results of the experiment were valuable in addressing the hypothesis under study. However, future investigations may need to adopt techniques that improve upon those used here. 5a. Now in figure 2. the time between steps 4 and 5 was 1 sec, that means the infants had 1 second to absorb information and answer. Now if we were to increase that time to 10 sec that would mean the infants would have a longer time to absorb information and answer which could lead to a different, more similar…

Is Retinitis Pigemntosa treatable? Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a disease that affects the back of the eyes, it usually occurs and starts in children aged as young as 5 have shown symptoms of RP. It starts out only affecting a slight proportion of the eye usually everything is consumed the disease apart from the centre of the eye there is no current treatment for this disease so therefore RP is a disease which tends to lead to complete blindness in young adults. Symptoms of RP tend to be…

Rett Syndrome Rett Syndrome is an uncommon neurodevelopmental disorder that is first discovered when a child is still an infant. This disorder is mostly found in girls, rarely is it ever found in boys. Rett Syndrome cannot be inherited from an early on ancestor, and statistically this syndrome affects one in every 10,000 to 20,000 children. Rett Syndrome has many side effects such as, teeth grinding and delayed development. Rett Syndrome is named after a physician and author who first discovered…