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Primary Prevention Teenage Drug
1,716 wordsOne of the goals of the City of Chicago's Health Department is to develop ways to decrease teenage drug use. Since the number of adolescents who use illegal drugs is growing rapidly, new and innovative prevention methods must be experimented with in order to solve the problem. Approaching the issue of teenage drug use from Gerald Caplan's prevention perspective will bring about the new and innovative results needed to effectively address this issue. Gerald Caplan (1964) is known as the individua...
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Downs Syndrome Genetic Disorder
1,468 words... y common in Downs Syndrome babies. Another thing that should be checked is for congenital dislocation of the hips. Extra care should be taken during the usual neonatal examination. In about 13 % of Downs Syndrome newborns there are already version problems with congenital cataracts. The removal of this early is very crucial. The sooner removed the better the babies vision is. (How to treat people with Downs Syndrome) Infancy It is extremely important to watch that the child during infancy do...
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Letter In Response To Hospital Negligence
1,242 wordsThis letter is in response to your communication dated November 21, 2001. The review you mentioned on your letter of the medical record of my mother, appears to be flawed and biased. In very few cases does the E. R. have the luxury of a patient arriving within minutes of the onset of an acute cerebro-vascular event (stroke). My mother arrived at the E. R. within twenty minutes of the onset of the symptoms. She was an ideal candidate for immediate use of intravenous T. P. A. If the E. R. physicia...
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People With Disabilities Individuals With Disabilities
1,334 words... nt school sectors, higher education sectors and people with disabilities. From 1997, the council worked on developing the draft combining both principle and performance based standards. The standards have since been re-drafted and address five key areas: 1. enrolment; 2. participation; 3. curriculum development, accreditation and delivery; 4. student support services; and 5. elimination of harassment and victimization The draft Disability Standards for Education were negotiated by the member...
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Does Not Completing High School Increase Criminal Arrests
1,570 wordsDoes not completing high school increase criminal arrests? The connection between dropout rate in high schools and crime statistics in America has been well established by numerous statistical surveys, which indicate that the probability for the school dropout to get involved in crime equals to approximately 90 %. The reason is obvious; students academic inadequacy derives out of his mental inability to operate with abstract categories, which is the main principle of studying process. The dropou...
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Children With Down Syndrome Child With Down Syndrome
913 wordsPeople Down Syndrome Down Syndrome People with Down syndrome are first and foremost human beings who have recognizable physical characteristics due to the presence of an extra chromosome 21. The estimated incidence of Down syndrome is between 1 in 1, 000 to 1 in 1, 100 live births. Each year approximately 3, 000 to 5, 000 children are born with this chromosome disorder. It is believed there are about 250, 000 families in the United States who are affected by Down syndrome. Children with Down syn...
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First Three Years Years Of Life
1,149 wordsEarly Intervention And Detection Of Medical, Emotional, Early Intervention And Detection Of Medical, Emotional, And Physical Disorders And Disabilities In the past children with disabilities were most often neglected, abused, and even killed. Today, however, society has become more understanding and involved in the lives, as well as the education of people with disabilities. In 1975, PL 94 - 142, otherwise known as The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, was the first step to providing a...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects
2,065 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition affecting children born to women who drink heavily during pregnancy. There are three criteria used to describe the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and to make a diagnosis of FAS. The first of these is a pattern of facial anomalies, these features include: &# 61558; Small eye openings &# 61558; Flat cheekbones &# 61558; Flattened groove between nose and upper lip &# 61558; Thin upper lip These characteristics can gradually diminish as the child age...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Low Birth Weight
2,039 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5, 000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10, 000 births in 1979 to 6. 7 per 10, 000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilkins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addicti...
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Commit Acts Littleton Colorado
3,416 wordsIn A Time of Violence Everywhere we look we see some sort of violence, if its not ourselves committing the violence, someone around us is. It is as though it never fails, on television it is not considered a good show unless there is some sort of shoot em up seen on every show. There is not an easy solution to stopping the violence that occurs each day. Instead it will take a nation wide contribution to even begin to control violence. I hope to show how violence is caused, who commits violence, ...
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Early Intervention Regular Classroom
868 wordsInclusion is a very controversial idea because it relates to educational and social values, as well as our sense of individual worth. Inclusion is the assignment of students with disabilities to regular classrooms in neighborhood schools for the entire school day. These children participate in all the regular school activities. It involves bringing the support services to the child rather than moving the child to the services, and requires only that the child will benefit from being in the class...
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