Trickle-down economics

My brother has down syndrome and like many children with downs he was put into a special needs class when he started school. In this class he learned at a slower pace than the other children in the school. As I got older I began to notice that the older children use the word retarded. As a child I wanted to be cool and fit in so I started to use the word as well. Soon after I noticed that some of my classmates were using the word to describe people in my brother’s class and even my brother, so…

1: What is Trickle-down economics Trickle- down economics is the idea that the money that the “Super Rich” spend circulates and promotes growth in the economy and benefits others. It is the theory that the drivers of economic growth are people that are successful in the economy and that from the tax cuts they receive they will spend more of their money in the economy and invest in business’s which will supposedly generate more jobs. Yet if this is in fact true then why is it that the living…

copy of the 21st chromosome. This disorder is called Down syndrome. It is the most commonly occurring chromosomal condition. People who are born with Down syndrome usually have a flat face ,Protruding tongue, Upward slanting eyes, Unusually shaped or small ears, Poor muscle tone, Broad, short hands with a single…

Down syndrome is one of the most common genetic disorders. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder where a person is born with an extra copy of chromosome 21. Down syndrome is a form of mental retardation. In the United States about 4,000 children are being born with this condition annually. One in about every 900 births is effected, making it the most common birth defect. There are three genetic variations that cause this disorder: trisomy 21, Mosaic Trisomy 21, or Translocation Trisomy 21. There…

Prenatal Genetic Testing: A Technology of Normalization Prenatal genetic testing is a technology made available to more accurately determine whether or not a child could have a birth ‘defect’. The most common birth defects tested for are Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect (Government of Canada, 2013). This paper asserts first that prenatal genetic testing is a technology of normalization, which labels disability as abnormal and a feared outcome, and second that…

The foundation of TLC is organized by a series of organized groups. The first group is the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors ultimately approves or disapproves any policy posed by the Executive Director. The Executive Director looks at the day to day operation in the organization. The Associate Director follows the Executive Director. The Associate Director then oversees the accounting side of things and human resources and quality insurances. The Associate Director provides two types…

Leisure: when an individual is free from work or self-care duties and or engages in intrinsic meaningful activities that increases the person’s satisfaction and overall happiness (Chen.Y, & Chen. S (2013). 155,000 children in Canada between the ages of 5-14 have been diagnosed with a disability(Stats Canada, 2008).This is a big concern because according to Bult et al., (2014), children who have a disability, encounter difficulties engaging in meaningful leisure activities due to the lack of…

“Down syndrome is found in 1 out of 800 births in the United States of America. 90 percent of people with Down’s syndrome live over the age of 5 years old. The occurrence of Down’s syndrome in young children to young adults was 1 in 971.”(American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009). Around half of children with Down’s syndrome have congenital heart defects and this disorder increases the risk of having leukemia. The risk of a child having Down’s syndrome increases after the age of 35 in mothers.…

Down syndrome affects 1 in every 691 births, a condition sometimes called trisomy 21, where a child inherits an extra copy of chromosome 21. Children born with Down syndrome have distinctive features such as: weak muscle tone, a small mouth held partially open because it is not big enough to accommodate for the tongue, and distinguishing eyelids. More serious deficiencies comprise of low resistance to infectious diseases, heart abnormalities, and fluctuating levels of mental retardation, in most…

development can cause Down syndrome also called Downs Syndrome named from John Langdon Down, an English Physician, who wrote about it in 1866. A child born with this defect has an extra or abnormal chromosome 21.this changes the way the body and brain develops, and depends on the type of down syndrome and how may cell shave an abnormal chromosome 21. Experts believe that changes often occur before conception in the woman’s egg and less of ten in the sperm. The type of Down syndrome called…