Congenital disorders

According to Vicki Reed’s textbook An Introduction to Children with Language Disorders, a language disorder is a “deviation in the usual rate and/or sequence with which specific language skills emerge” (Reed, 2011, p. 81). X is a nine-year-old boy who was diagnosed with an expressive- receptive language disorder. The patient attends speech therapy routinely at John Keys Speech and Hearing Clinic, and is currently making progress towards his set goals. Throughout X’s nine years of life, he has…

functions. There are an innumerable amount of pathologies and disorders that the brain can suffer from, and this paper will be focusing on just a few of the major, most common ailments. Cerebral palsy, cerebral infections, strokes, and degenerative brain diseases are some of the most common pathologies associated with the brain and these will be the main focus throughout this paper. Cerebral palsy, a very common developmental neurological disorder, appears in the early infant years and…

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is described as behaviors establishing a pattern that shows disregard for others rights and violation of those rights. This behavior generally begins in childhood displayed by conflicts in life that include family problems with relationship…

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that involves difficulty of the brain in planning the oral movements needed to produce speech sounds. It is not a muscle weakness; the brain has problems coordinating and sequencing muscle movements to produce the sounds or words that the child is attempting to say (Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Overview, 2015). The core problem includes both input processing, as well as production. The prevalence of CAS…

prevalent sleep disorder is insomnia, a disorder in which one is unable to fall asleep and/or stay asleep. There are three types of insomnia: Short-term, Primary, and Secondary. Short-term insomnia can be caused by a number of things, including jet lag, extreme temperature, stress, medication, and emotional or physical discomfort. The most common form of insomnia is primary insomnia, and is more common in women than men and increases with age. Secondary insomnia can be caused by mental disorders…

"Bulimia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which a person binges and purges. Bingeing means eating a large amount of food in a short period of time. Purging means getting rid of all the food by self-induced vomiting; abuse of laxatives, diet pills, and/or diuretics, excessive exercising; or fasting"( Teen Health and Wellness 2015). All over the world studies have been conducted and have shown that bulimia currently affects 1 to 3 percent of middle and high school girls and 1 to 4 percent of the…

impact on just how much this deprivation impairs him or her. Sleep deprivation can have several possible causes and its effects are different in each case; however, there are several types of sleep disorders that cause sleep deprivation that have consequential effects. There are several types of sleep disorders that cause one to experience sleep deprivation such as insomnia, restless leg syndrome (RLS), and sleep apnea. Insomnia can be caused by stress, jet lag, and diet, tending to increase…

days in mourning. I would suggest this because April needs a motherly figure in her life since her mother doesn’t step up to it someone has to. The book Perfect is similar to the book Skinny by Ibi Kaslik. It is also about a girl who has an eating disorder except that she thinks that she is too fat and eats too little which is the exact opposite for Isabelle, who binge eats and throws up. This book relates to an article that came out on October 2nd 2014 called…

Bipolar disorder is a medical condition that causes periods of mania and depression ( Manji, Martinowich, & Schloesser, 2009, p.726). The length of episodes can vary from days to weeks. Full recovery can typically be seen between episodes. The Bipolar disorder general population is 2% with the median on set age of 25 years old (Hales, Hilty, Kelly, Leamon, & Lim, 2006, p.43). Affecting both male and female alike. However, Bipolar II is more common in women, whereas Bipolar I in men (Hales, Hilty…

symptoms related to Bulimia Nervosa (BN). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, 5th edition or the DSM-5 , JA’s eating disorder has disrupted her everyday life (DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association, 2013). People who are diagnosed with Bulimia usually experience similar symptoms that have common features that correspond to the DSM-5 's description of this disorder. Criteria A: Recurrent episodes of binge eating where excessive amounts of food are consumed in…