Mental retardation

Foltran, Gregori, Franchin, Verduci, and Giovanni (2011) established an article focusing on the effect of alcohol consumption in child development from prenatal life, childhood, and adolescences. The introduction discusses the importance of how alcohol is a harmful risk factor to human life and found that the consumption level of alcohol in the US for males is higher than that of females. The independent variable is the study of the effects of alcohol consumption on the three periods of life and

For chapter three teratogen assignment I chose to write about alcoholism. Alcohol is a well-known teratogen, which is a substance that interrupts emblematic growth during pregnancy which is known as Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). FASD is caused when the mother consumes alcohol during pregnancy. Because of the lack of knowledge about FASD, many baby’s, children and adults are untreated because some doctors are not aware of FASD symptoms. Doctors often conclude that the baby has ADHD, autism

The effects of a rare genetic disorder such as Dravet syndrome can greatly affect the way that a family functions as well as the conditions in which the family lives. Families handle the care of their child At the age of 3 months old, Charlotte Figi had suffered a seizure that was the first of many, her parents were instantly concerned because of the duration and intensity of the seizure’s that their infant was suffering from. Charlotte would suffer from an average of three-hundred grand-mal seizures

In the US around 4.6 million people are identified as having an intellectual disability and 25 to 33 % children are born with mental disabilities. Resch J, Benz M, Elliott T. (2012). Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 18. In order to determine if a child has intellectual disabilities the child

for Algernon “all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb.” In the book Flowers for Algernon a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man named Charlie Gordon has the opportunity to undergo a surgical procedure that will dramatically increase his mental capabilities. After the operation, he had difficulty making new friendships and establishing new relationships due to a lack of social intelligence that the surgery could neither correct nor anticipate. And in the end, Charlie went back to being mentally

to refer to participation restrictions, activity limitations, and physical impairments when the disabled persons interact with their contextual factors. One of the impairments afflicting people is mental retardation, which results in social, physical, speech, and learning disabilities. Mental retardation is

How has the label of “Mental Retardation” been used to discriminate against people and do you think the term, "Intellectual Disability" would have a different connotation? Society has a different intake in everything, as individual we are expected to do certain things, live certain way, and be certain way. Occasionally, when we fail to live to these expectations we are often excluded from certain groups and may not regarded as typical human beings. The term “Mental Retardation” might be the perfect

That was a treatment they used on people. In the 1800’s people with mental disorders did not have any rights. They were caged, chained, and treated like animals. Mental illness is vital to know about because those who suffer from mental disorders were treated harshly and doing so did not help, people who treated them harsh did not understand what it is like to have the disorder, and it is not their fault they were born that way. Mental illness can affect different areas of the body. “Abnormal behavior

biochemical disorders have been known, however, we can check for risk factors for pica some examples; I found the following: Brain damage, Parental-child psychopathology, Pregnancy, Family disorganization, Environmental deprivation, Epilepsy, Mental retardation, Pervasive developmental disorders. The pica disorder was named after a bird that’s call the magpie, a species of a bird that feeds on whatever it can find. When making a diagnosis for a patient with pica it requires that the patient must

most common form of retardation in males and females. It occurs in all nationalities. Children with fragile X, inherit this from their parents. “Nearly all cases of fragile X syndrome are caused by an alteration (mutation) in the FMR1 gene where a DNA segment, known as the CGG triplet repeat, is expanded” (National Human Genome Reasearch Institution, 2013). Even though it affects both males and females, females usually have a milder case. The FMR1 (fragile x mental retardation 1) makes a protein