Metabolic syndrome

Both authors talked about parents who have babies born with downs syndrome that may have an intestinal obstruction that requires operation. The combination of the syndrome and obstruction sometimes sways parents against the operation and to let the baby die; it is within their rights to make this decision. Rachel’s states that he can understand both sides of the token…

Patau Syndrome Patau syndrome is a disorder that affects its victims from the moment of their birth (1,2). The disease is named after Dr. Klaus Patau, a German American geneticist, who described the syndrome in 1960 (3). Geneticist is a biologist that specializes in genetics (4). The disease is also known by the name Bartholin-Patau syndrome. This refers to Dr. Klaus Patau and Erasmus Bartholin. Erasmus Bartholin was the original discoverer of Patau syndrome but Bartholin was unable to explain…

DOWN SYNDROME: A LIFE-LONG DISORDER Imagine facing two choices: parents having to abort their unborn baby, or they go through the pregnancy knowing their child is going to have Down syndrome, knowing that raising him or her will not be easy. Many parents face this choice everyday. According to Peggy Parks, author of Down Syndrome, 80 to 90 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted (19). Everyday, all around the world babies are diagnosed with Down syndrome and parents…

It’s ability not disability that counts! 1. introduction- In the 1950s, people, in particular students, if they struggled in school or looked different, were treated as second class citizens. They were grouped together and didn’t get quality instructions. In the working world they couldn 't get jobs or were left to figure things out for themselves. The National organization on disability, founded in july 1990, has successfully advanced opportunity for people with disabilities , advocated for…

There are many reasons why I have chosen to discuss the topic of Asperger’s syndrome now called autism spectrum disorder. When I first learned about the disorder, it was only labeled Asperger’s syndrome, there were no in between that is what you were. The reason my paper is on this topic is because my daughter was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in her kindergarten year of school. She was shy and not a very social child, but acted like the other children for the most part. Her issues that…

In this paper we will be discussing the mental and sensory skill disorder of Autism and Asperger’s syndrome. We will address the signs of the disorder that can be perceived by other’s and the School boards and the community how they can adapt to shape the person mind into becoming functioning young men and women of Society. One thing to understand is that people with this disorder just want to feel excepted and want to have a supporting community by their side. The reason why I have chosen this…

Carrie Stangis, is the Resource Center Director/Supports Coordination Supervisor at Services to Enhance Potential (STEP). They currently have accreditation in: • Community Integration • Community • Services Coordination • Community Employment Services • Job Development • Job-Site Training • Job Supports • Employment Services Coordination • Organizational Employment Services The human problems that Carrie work with in her job are • Intellectual Disabilities • Cognitive Disabilities •…

Background: What is Down Syndrome? Down Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder caused by an error in cell division that results in an extra twenty-first chromosome, that causes birth defects of developmental and intellectual delays. The human body is composed of trillions of cells and within the nucleus of each cell are structures called chromosomes (Parks, 2009). About eight million babies are diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the United States with approximately twenty thousand in Western Europe…

This term paper about Autism will be supported by the following books: “Autism Life Skills” by Chantal Sicile-Kira, “Neurodevelopmental Disabilities” by Dilip R. Patel, Donald E. Greydanus, Hatim A. Omar, and Joav Merrick, “Could it be Autism?” by Nancy D. Wiseman, and “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5)” by The American Psychiatric Association. Each of these books has a different way of describing Autism and also varies in terms of technicalities; giving…

Three Levels of Diagnosis: Level 1 (Requiring Support): This person shows perceptible difficulties in social skills. The individual may struggle to start a conversation with someone and may respond in uncharacteristic ways to those who try to engage in a conversation with them. Overall this person may have little interest to form attachments with others. - Besides having difficulties in social interactions, their behavior is not flexible in terms of not being able to alternate from one task…