Special Needs – Autism
Disability & Learning Disorder – Cerebral Palsy
Developmental Delay – Down Syndrome
• identifying special needs, developmental delays, disabilities and learning disorders (This is applicable to all 3)
Students come to school/early learning centres with a diagnosed learning disability. Parents have noticed these difficulties before students begin school and that a diagnosis can then help educators choose appropriate interventions and teaching strategies to support what research says works best in these cases.
Screening and Diagnosis. Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be difficult, since there is no medical test, like a blood test, to diagnose the disorders. Doctors look at the child's behaviour and development to make a diagnosis. ASD can sometimes be detected at 18 months or younger
Generally at birth Down syndrome will already be diagnosed by the doctor. If not before during pregnancy from testing.
Cerebral Palsy There is no test that confirms or rules out Cerebral Palsy. In severe cases, the child may be diagnosed soon after birth, but for the majority, diagnosis can be made in the first two years. For those with milder symptoms, a diagnosis may not be rendered until the brain is fully developed at three to five years of age
• a detailed description of chosen special needs, developmental delays, disabilities and learning disorders
Cerebral Palsy - a condition marked by impaired muscle coordination (spastic paralysis) and/or
Given the varying methods used to determine the presence of a specific learning disability, what conclusions might the team draw from the Response to Intervention description and the
Learning disabilities are a life long struggle but if caught at a young age and early intervention takes place. The stress on the child and family is greatly reduced. Learning disabilities spread to every part of a child’s life affecting them socially. Teachers must remain professional and refrain from calling students lazy as in Adams case. A good teacher or specialist can demystify a learning disability and help a child’s
Diagnosis. The earliest indicators of autism are impairments of verbal and nonverbal communication. A child with autism will have difficulties responding to their name, smiling and making eye contact, babbling or cooing by twelve months, and using single or two word phrases by twenty-four months (NIMH, n.d.). A proper diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is a two part process. The child is first given a general screening to check for developmental issues. If the child is not making satisfactory developmental progress according to his or her age group, the child would be referred for additional screening. At this stage, the child will need to be screened to check for specific symptoms of autism. The screening can be based solely on the parent’s observation of the
If parents, teachers, and other professionals discover a child's learning disability early and provide the right kind of help, it can give the child a chance to develop skills needed to lead a successful and productive life. The LD online website provides a long list of characteristics that might indicate a learning disability between the ages of Kindergarten and high school. Some common signs of a learning disability that as a teacher we can look for in the classroom would be, a student speaks later than most children, pronunciation problems, slow vocabulary growth, student is often unable to find the right word, difficulty rhyming words, trouble learning numbers, alphabet, colors, and shapes, extremely restless and easily distracted, trouble interacting with peers, difficulty following directions or routines, and lastly the fine motor skills are slow to develop. Once the teacher or parents can understand what type of learning disability a child has they can help them succeed academically by providing instruction better and understanding the person
There are many different types of learning disabilities; the most common ones are dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. (Jerome Rosner. –third ed. 1)
Onset of ASD occurs prior to age three, often be accompanied by abnormalities in cognitive functioning, learning, attention, and sensory processing. Autism has been a very difficult to diagnose at an early age, due to lack of symptoms. While the onset of autism usually occurs prior to age three it may not always be easy to pick up because at that young age most children are unable to communicate effectively, and may not be in many social situations that would make the diagnosis easy. Knowledge of the subject of autism is still very limited.
Diagnosing and testing for autism isn’t always a crystal clear path. It is common for autism to be tested and diagnosed in children age three or younger. There is not a medical test as of now to test for autism, instead there are analyses done by psychologists and specialists to test a child’s behavioral patterns and actions. By giving an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), doctors are able to pinpoint spots on a child’s brain “where the left and right hemispheres of the brains of people with ASD do not communicate properly with one another(Diagnosing).” There is also a study to monitor a pregnant woman’s blood, if her previous child has been diagnosed with autism. After the woman has her baby, the blood is still monitored by more blood tests to see if the autistic symptoms appear in the newborn child. By doing this, there is a hope to find a cause and cure for autism, since there is no definite cure as of
Currently 1 in 68 children are affected with ASD, which a majority of them being boys. Diagnosis for this disorder begins around age 2 or 3 and major symptoms include the inability to communicate and interact easily with others and difficulty interpreting body language. Parents are more likely to diagnose their child with autism through their child's behavior and since there is no medical test that can be done, most medical doctors rely on
There is no single medical test that can diagnose it definitively; instead, in order to accurately pinpoint your child 's problem, multiple evaluations and tests are necessary.” Autism is a lifelong developmental brain-base disorder that affects a person form of communication, behavior and social skills. ASD share common effects of autism. Autism in a child can be recognized as early two months old. Early signs in a two month old may include, not responding to facial expressions or loud noises and putting their hands or feet toward their mouth. As a child grows older signs of autism began to show more.
Various test can be done in order to see if the foetus has Down Syndrome. The most common tests to look for Down Syndrome.
Down Syndrome can be diagnosed when the person is an infant. According to The National Human Genome Research Institute if one is suspected of this condition chromosome analysis is performed on the skin and blood to look for the extra chromosome 21. Most of the time the disease can be diagnosed during the pregnancy through certain types of tests (National Human Gnome Research Institute).
with autism. Doctors say that they study about autism and how kids can get it, especially adults.
Down Syndrome can appear immediately prenatally and postnatally, and has sometimes been shown to have an onset later in life as well. It all depends on the bodies growth over time and
The three steps in diagnose autism in some cases, you can diagnose at the age of 14 months, the better to improve the diagnosis of the situation of children and evaluated immediately to determine whether autism or not, and if they become united communicates doctor speak to your child's nursery or school to see if they if they have knowledge of his state of health or not, because patients with autism It needs to teach
There are three common types of Down Syndrome, the most common one being trisomy 21, which is found in about 95% of people with Down Syndrome. During pregnancy the formation of the egg or sperm, from a woman's or a man's pair of chromosomes normally split, so that only one chromosome is in each egg or sperm. In trisomy 21, the 21st chromosome pair does not split and a double-dose goes to the egg or sperm. The second type is known as translocation, found in about 3% to 4% of people with Down Syndrome. With this type an extra part of the 21st chromosome gets "stuck" onto another chromosome. The third type, mosaicism, is found in about 1% to 2% of people with Down Syndrome. With this type an extra 21st chromosome is found in only some of the cells. There are two tests that can be done to detect if the child you are carrying has any type of Down Syndrome, they are diagnostic and screening tests. A diagnostic test samples fetal cells and gives a definitive diagnosis. This test is usually done between 14 and 18 weeks of pregnancy. Although fairly safe, there is a small risk