Deafness

Two Ears are Better Than One: Microtia Aural Atresia June 26, 2006, the day of my son's birth, I received some shocking news. A nurse informed me that he was born without his right ear, a birth defect called microtia aural atresia. My lack of knowledge on this birth defect made it difficult to understand that babies could be born without their ears. The nurse tried to reassure me that he could still hear because he passed a hearing test. The doctor performs the hearing test by clapping their…

Congenital CMV is about 0.6 and 0.7%. Currently, the rates increased 1% to 5% with Congenital CMV (SDPCH). This article “Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” stated that Congenital CMV infection is most single cause of sensorineural hearing loss or deafness during childhood. About 10-15% of the infants with Congenital CMV have hearing loss currently. The disease has developed in first 6 years in children with symptomatic and asymptomatic infection. Therefore, children with symptomatic…

Adapted Physical Education (APE) is developed for a learner with a disability, in order to implement them into PE classes with students who do not have disabilities. This is mandated by federal law so that students with disabilities receive physical education to develop the motor skills that are essential to their lives through physical activity. Changes that are made for the students with disabilities in these classes are based on the type of disability that the student suffers from and…

“Many of our children today suffer from a Learning disability that disables the child from learning how too properly write/read/or speaks. For children with the disability, their peers sometimes be little them making it hard for the child to learn. Improper evaluation has led to the advancement of the disorders in our children. The research I conducted was to see the effects of improper evaluation on children. My research proyed that improper evaluation at schools causes advancement in the…

discover of human rights abuse and mass cruelty, state funded mental institutions have changed their methods drastically throughout the years. The various types of abuse that the patients had to endure through were horrifying. Misdiagnosis such as deafness was considered retardation, and the psychiatric would sentence them into the institutions without considering a second option or opinion. The facilities would often intentionally over prescribe pills, and practically overdose their patients.…

understood. This paper focuses on the summary, knowledge and insights of what we have learned from this process. We must understand what these categories of special needs are. They are quite in number and this includes emotional disturbances, autism, deafness, intellectual disabilities, blindness and learning disabilities. The definition of these categories is according to the IDEA which is the Individuals with Disabilities Act, (2012).…

To start discussing on where did religion come from just some background knowledge I know. It could be a myth or it could be true that religion was not thought about back then when people was living. They just understood the way of life and its values and doing most things to understand and satisfied them or their belief. Personally, I was thinking religion come from the Ancient Emperor, Roman, god and goodness of the sun and planets in space. But it has to be a reason why people started…

person is. The individual still wants a high quality of life and the parents disabled children have the same hopes and dreams. Whether it is Sandy handling her daughters cerebral palsy, Ms.Carter embracing her daughter's learning disabilities and deafness, or the parents within “Silver Water” caring for their daughter with schizophrenia, family is family. Disabilities do not define them or their…

with birth defects. With the increase of vaccinating children for rubella, also known as German measles, the risk has decreased tremendously for a pregnant woman to pass it along to their unborn fetus or their newly born child. Birth defects such as deafness, blindness, heart problems, liver and spleen damage, and mental disabilities that come with the virus are no longer even seen in the United States, all by just a vaccination (Pro & Con Arguments:”Should Any Vaccines Be Required for…

There have been cases where instead of selecting the embryos that don 't have a disorder, like deafness, patients want a child with it, “It found that 3 percent of the clinics surveyed had used genetic screening to enable parents to select an embryo for the presence of a particular disease or disability ... in order that the child would share that…