WHAT IS DYSPRAXIA? Dyspraxia is a complex disorder in which individuals lack coordination of their motor activities, speech, judgment, body balance and movements. In these individuals, the various cognitive skills such as memory, perception, thought processes are usually impaired, although the intelligence remains unaffected. Furthermore, the nervous system and the body's immune system suffer major setbacks. Dyspraxia is widely known as Developmental Coordination Disorder. Diagnosis is carried…
Autism Encountered with this term, society immediately yearns to associate the condition with being different, difficult, antisocial and perhaps even abnormal. Admittedly, before I investigated further into the topic of Autism, I may have also habitually tried to fit autistic people under a label. Essentially, none of these words justly describe the true nature of autism. For the most part, the public generally believes that autistic people have trouble communicating effectively and…
Autism spectrum is a disorder that affects the central nervous system. It affects one out of every 68 children in the United States, and it occurs more often in boys rather than girls. Autism spectrum affects social interaction, both verbal and nonverbal communication, and behaviors and interests. A child’s development may be delayed from birth, or it can happen later in life. There are three main types of autism spectrum: asperger’s syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, and autistic…
with autism have brains that are more symmetrical than others. However, in this instance symmetry means something entirely different from what you may typically infer autism and the brain. Recent imaging has revealed that children within the autism spectrum disorder have less asymmetries in their brains compared to their non-autistic peers. There was a study done by San Diego State University, about the two halves of the brain having “different processing modes.” The left half is more…
Infants demonstrate an other-race effect. This is when people show facial recognition errors when a target face is from an unfamiliar racial group, rather than their own racial group. This is known as the other-race effect (Meissner & Brigham, 2001). The question is: is the other race effect present from birth or does it develop based on experience? It has been demonstrated that selectivity based on ethnic facial differences emerges very early in life. However, researchers have…
“Hey, Hayley, you should stop now. You have been punching the bag for 6 hours. You shouldn’t be so hard on yourself,” Ricky told me. I did not really care what he said and kept punching the bag. “HAYLEY” Ricky yelled. “WHAT” I stopped what I was doing and yelled back. “Finally you listen,” he said with annoyance “I know being the new leader of the Black Knights is going to be tough. Even though you’re 17, you’re not the only young leaders and without parents all the other gangs have lots…
Rett Syndrome is a disorder that affects the nervous system and is found almost exclusively in girls. Rett syndrome is caused by a malfunction in the MECP2 gene. What is exactly the MECP2 gene? Well MECP2 gene is the gene that encodes protein and essentials. How can you prevent Rett Syndrome? Well doctors have proved that Rett Syndrome is a randomly found in a female infant. RTT is a non-inherited genetic disorder. Rett Syndrome is often described as autism, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s,…
According to the American Psychiatric Association, the developmental co-ordination disorder can be defined as a neuro-developmental condition (DCD) that affects a child’s ability to perform everyday tasks in self-care and academic areas. Other terms for this disorder/Synonyms for DCD includes motor delays, clumsiness, clumsiness -motor delay, developmental delay, gross motor and fine motor developmental delay, developmental apraxia, disorder of attention and motor perception, developmental…
Introduction Asymmetry is one of the most unusual and interesting errors of human reproduction. Subtle, asymmetric variation of the contra lateral structures of the head and face occur commonly in the general population in the absence of any local lesion or condition. [1] Some of these changes, however, may slowly but steadily progress and exhibit asymmetrical development. These changes usually do not follow any particular relationship with time or modifying circumstances such as trauma and…
It is seen that discriminatory and stigmatizing behaviors’ could have an impact on people’s lives, therefore, it is important to map out the process and develop the social context in understanding of how behaviors’ are experienced. To address this further, Kleinman and Hall-Clifford, 2009 challenge researchers to discover the way that stigmatizing behaviors’ impact individual lives by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methods (Kleinman and Hall-Clifford, 2009). The study shows that the…