Psychiatrists and Special Population Essay

the right place. When I say this I mean sometimes I could be having a bad day and not meaning to I could gibe the impression to the client that I do not care about what is happening with them. My main strength when it comes to dealing with this population is my knowledge about the illness. Having first hand knowledge as to what a person can expect and explaining this to them is very helpful. The main way I would use my strength to overcome my limitations is by remembering that knowledge is the…

Because the family belongs to an extremely small ethnic group, Esmeralda and her family may be suffering from discrimination in hiring practices or discrimination in school. “Social problems are societal induced conditions that harm any segment of the population. Social problems are also related to acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society” (Long, 2012, para. 3). 3. What do you need to know about her cultural values/beliefs that may affect the delivery of social services…

Materials are adapted in four ways, adjusting the readability level of written materials, enhancing critical features of the content within the materials themselves, designing materials with features that appeal to all senses, and selecting alternate instructional materials for their durability or safety features. Changing curricular content would adjust the cognitive demand of a learning task for a learner. That might involve reducing the number of vocabulary words assigned to a child, having…

(“Special Education”). In addition, this makes children feel superior to their peers. In other words, it leads them to feel disconnected from the other students, like an outsider that does not belong. Because of this, students get easily frustrated with themselves and are apt to give up or even worse believe it is their fault they are different from others. In reality, the minds of these already low-level learners have the confusion of their surrounding peers to add on top of the mental stress they…

1. Introduction Malaysian government's formal involvement in special education began in 1948 with the opening of Princess Elizabeth School for the Blind. Education for children with special educational needs (SEN) was undertaken by community groups and religious-based institutions. Besides that, education for these children was further enhanced by the establishment of the Federated School for the Deaf in 1954. It offers both academic as well as vocational training. During the early years of Independence…

when it came to special education students, my philosophy changed, due to their learning disability. I was ignorant to the special education movement of inclusion, because I feared the idea of teaching students who were not “normal”. I use the word normal in quotations because I now realize that special education students are like anybody else, and that we, special and general education students alike, are all normal. There is nothing wrong with special education students. Special education…

taught right in the schools, or in schools specific to their needs. These students usually were not part of the regular classrooms, but had their own little class apart from the student population. The passage of EAHCA and IDEA changed the shaped of special education forever and are the laws which govern special education today. Why did congress enact these laws? Congress enacted these laws due to these findings: ‘‘(2) Before the date of enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children…

specially designed “educational materials” for sensorimotor training. (Smith, 1998). Today this is known as the Sensory Diet. We are getting closer to have specially designed, replacement curriculum that is scientifically based. The history of special education in the U.S. began after World War II, when a number of parent-organized advocacy groups surfaced. One of the first organizations was the American Association on Mental Deficiency, which held its first convention in 1947. By the early 1950s…

The teenage werewolf program used it to show the unfortunate boy transforming into a raging beast. At each cut interval the special effects "crew" (usually the producer and a make-up specialist) would add a little bit more hair to the actor's face. When finished, the illusion of growing hair was achieved, although it was choppy. The reason for the choppy result is that when using stop-motion the actor and camera must be kept as still as possible. If not, when recording resumes the actor is…

people decide they want to retire back to a rural area when they reach a ripe age and escape the hustle and bustle of city life. This explains why there are more elderly dependents in the rural area. In the UK rural and urban population is spread out rather differently. The number of births is…