The Concept Of Special Health Care Needs

Children, young people and Families: Families of children with additional needs are likely to be in contact with many different agencies and professionals - for example health, education, social services, housing and benefits. For example, families with disabled children see on average ten different professionals and have more than 20 clinic visits a year (Sloper, 2004). Often families don't understand the roles and responsibilities of different agencies and professionals; they don't know who to go to for what; they may get conflicting information; they may be passed from one agency to another. This can produce rather than alleviate stress for parents and carers, which in turn impacts on relationships with their

A total of 35 children were enrolled into the current study; 15 children had a medical illness, 14 children were siblings of a child with a medical and/or chronic illness, and 6 children were healthy and had healthy family members. The children with medical illnesses and the

In this essay I am going to talk the patterns and trends of health and ill health among different social groupings. I will talk about each pattern and trend in its own paragraph, Social class, Gender, Ethnicity, Age and Geographical location. I will talk about the links between these to health issues. I will back these up through the use of evidence such as statistics. I will then conclude what I have found out. Firstly I will talk about each pattern and trend.

* Health-: health problems can be genetic or caused by the environment the child grows up in. If the child lives in poor quality houses with damp this could trigger

Special needs that may increase caregiver burden (e.g., disabilities, mental retardation, mental health issues, and chronic physical

Children who have disabilities, physical, emotional., and mental all need someone to care for them and give them their needs. Every year one-third of the more than half of million youngsters in foster care in the United States have dishabilles, ranging from minor developmental delays to significant mental and physical delays (Waldman, Perlman, & Lederman pg. 20). There are a mass growing in the world of children with disabilities whether it come from abuse in womb or genetically. There is a significant growth of children with disabilities in foster

About 11.2 million children representing 15 percent of all children in the United States have special health care needs, such as autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, depression, or anxiety (Data Research Center for Child and Adolescent Health, 2009/10). These children often require specialized services and therapies to live a healthy life, such as nursing care to live safely at home, specialized medical equipment, or regular therapy to address physical, behavioral, or developmental illnesses and conditions, which most private insurance plans don’t

Assessing the needs is the first logical stepping stone of the health promotion planning cycle stones. Assessing children with disabilities in the school setting can be applied with the collaboration with the teachers. The school may recommend further assessment or screening for the child with disability based on the teacher’s recommendations, observation, or by giving the children special tests. In addition, parents are also needed to share the assessment of their child if needed. At the beginning, I am going to define the relevant population demographic and social characteristics, behavior, lifestyles,

The purpose of this paper is to define autism, define Medicaid, and the role that Medicaid plays in regards to coverage of necessary therapy treatments for autistic children in the state of Florida. The advantages and disadvantages of Medicaid will be discussed as well. This topic is of interest to me because I work with this population on a daily basis as an occupational therapy assistant. It is important to be aware of this program and how it affects the autistic population because 1 in 68 children are diagnosed with autism (Chen, Peñagarikano, Belgard, Swarup & Geschwind, 2015). The Medicaid coverage for autistic children is great, although coverage varies from state to state and has a

From the first day a child is born, parents are there to nurture their child, to support them as they grow and develop. There is a lot to learn about raising a child under normal circumstances, but when a child has special needs parents must learn this whole new language of medical and special education terms (Overton, 2005). Parents enter this new world where navigating for the best interest of their child is riddled with challenges and obstacles that they need to somehow overcome. This is especially true when parents are dealing with the special education program in their child’s school.

The diagnosis of the disease, its cause or causes, stage, treatment and prognosis will be sought from the pediatrician. He establishes and explains the connection between the disease and the patient's family history. He prescribes appropriate medicines and medications to alleviate the patient's symptoms. The moral principles surrounding the couple's decision concerning the disease are contributed by the ethicist. He warns against the double-effect situation in this disease condition. He emphasizes that birth defects

While analyzing the article by Parish et. al (2008) the reader could tell that having a child with a disability can cause financial hardships effecting the family’s meals, housing, and telephone services. As the research suggests 28% of children with disabilities are below the national poverty level (Parish et. al, 2008). The research would suggest the biggest barrier for families with a child with a disability would be money. Therefore parents may not be able to pay for services that could benefit their child.

The importance of education for all children, especially for those with disability and with limited social and economic opportunities, is indisputable. Indeed, the special education system allowed children with disability increased access to public education. Apart from that, the special education system has provided for them an effective framework for their education, and for the institutions involved to identify children with disability sooner. In turn, this promotes greater inclusion of children with disability alongside their nondisabled peers. In spite of these advances however, many obstacles remain, including delays in providing services for children with disability, as well as regulatory and

In 1993 the report of the Special Education Review Committee (SERC) was published. This report dealt comprehensively with the educational implications of special needs. It provided a definition of special needs which included those with severe and profound difficulties through to those who were exceptionally able and included both physical and mental disabilities. It recognized that the desire of the majority of parents of children with

Taking care of children with disabilities requires a compassionate spirit of valuing them as human being worth of respect regardless of their disabilities.