Mild cognitive impairment

Gene Therapy Makes an Impact on Deafness Today’s scientific technology has increased; we now have different techniques and methods for saving lives, one being gene therapy. According to Scientific America, gene therapy is when you add a “new gene to a patient’s cell to replace missing” or broken genes. An interesting topic I encountered about gene therapy was, how gene therapy helps deafness. Deafness can be caused by many different reasons. According to Harvard Medical School, they stated that…

What is hearing loss and deafness? Is it the inability to hear sound? Or is it more than that? The answer will depend on who you ask. With regard to hearing loss, there are three main types. An individual with conductive hearing loss has the inability to hear due to any number of issues stemming from the outer ear. Sound waves are not able to pass from the outer ear to the inner ear, specifically the cochlea (a spiral cavity that looks like a snail shell that receives sound in the form of…

OUTLINE HOW DAMAGE CAN OCCUR TO HUMAN HEARING Damage to human hearing can be affected in many ways, such as noise, medication, disease and injury. Noise: Noise is the most known of damage to human hearing, and is known as Noise Induced Hearing Lose. This occurs when a sound is to loud and becomes harmful to the human ear. How can noise damage our hearing? To understand how NIHL happens, we need to understand how it is that we hear. First, sound waves enter our outer ear then travel through…

overcome barriers in order to make way for the therapeutic process to begin7. As we know it today, stigma is not merely a physical mark but rather an attribute that results in widespread social disapproval The origin of stigmatization lies in the cognitive representations that people (perceivers) hold regarding those who possess the stigmatized condition (targets)8. Hearing clinicians may have unconscious biases that can affect their decisions when working with deaf clients. Their decisions can…

other specialists and children’s parents in a team approach to address the needs of children with communicative disorders. As a teacher, I would take different approaches in order to help these students. Sometimes children who are diagnosed as having mild speech or communication problems are placed in a “pull-out” program. In this approach, a child sees a speech–language pathologist for a specific time period during the day or week, depending on the severity of the speech problem.…

The use of compensatory strategies is one treatment technique used in cognitive rehabilitation. Compensatory strategies include environmental modifications, internal strategies such as mnemonics and visual imagery, and external strategies such as the use of external aids. In particular, the use of external aids is commonly implemented into treatment, either alone or in conjunction with other techniques to target memory and executive functioning (Sohlberg & Mateer, 2001, pp. 201-205). A…

impact of financial instability in the family, parental conflict, and relative scarcity of parental support. As a consequence, the client struggled with academic achievement at school and experienced functional impairment at work during adulthood years. As a result of continued impairments in these domains, the client developed an image of herself as inadequate and unsuccessful, which contributed to her depressed mood. From a trans-diagnostic stand point, the client engaged in excessive…

Intervention strategies will target the receptive and expressive areas of communication in conjunction with each other to maximize the student’s success in therapy. Since the student presents with both reading and writing difficulty, the intervention strategies for the receptive and expressive areas will equip the student with writing readiness skills. Reading enhances writing skills therefore teaching language, reading, and writing as a whole process is conducive to effective learning (Silvers,…

In the Language Context subtest area, the client obtained a standard score of 94 with a percentile rank of 34 and a confidence interval of 88-100. This standard score is within normal functional limits. In the Language Structure subtest area, Bernie obtained a standard score of 85 with a percentile rank of 16 with a confidence interval of 79-91. This standard score indicates a borderline average score. In the subtest area of Working Memory, the client obtained a standard score of 77 with a…

The children with specific language impairment also showed greater number of errors in the answers about sentence content, which showed that their long-term retrieval was being affected. The fact that being able to recall specific vocabulary words was difficult for the language-impaired children…