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Body Of Christ Mentally Handicapped
1,578 wordsThis project is a response to the necessity of our churches taking a more active role in the integration of handicapped persons into the life of the church. Ecumenism has its focus on unifying all Christian belief systems. However, if there are existing divisions over the issues surrounding the handicapped in our churches, unifying our churches will be a moot effort. Ecumenism, if it is truly a movement for the wholeness of the body of Christ, must take into consideration the issue of the handic...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
2,024 wordsNow of course with the holidays coming up everyone knows to drink and behave responsibly. Everyone including the young mothers who are carrying children. They know all about the physical and cognitive effects that a drink may have on their fetus. According to health surveys 19 percent of 4 million mothers used some form of alcohol in their prenatal phase, in 1992. And this number is continually increasing, making Fetal Alcohol Syndrome one of the leading causes of birth defects in the United Sta...
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Undue Hardship Mental Retardation
1,428 wordsThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 The purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is to provide equal access and opportunity for the more than forty-three million disabled Americans living in the United States. On July 26, 1990, President Bush signed into law the ADA. The worlds first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities, this event was a historical benchmark and a milestone in Americas commitment to full and equal opportunity for all citizens. The...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Blood Alcohol Level
1,595 wordsWhat can happen to a fetus when a pregnant women drinks heavily during her pregnancy? It can lead to permanent, irreversible and incurable effects that will bring a lifetime of pain for both the child and the family. These permanent and unchangeable effects arise from a fetus attaining fetal alcohol syndrome from its mother. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of malformations and disabilities resulting from a pregnant woman drinking heavily during her pregnancy. FAS is unique in that effe...
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Abolish The Death Penalty Mentally Retarded
1,184 wordsThe sentence of capital punishment is an expensive barbaric alternative for punishing a criminal. Where does the hostility and ignorance stop once it begins? Murder is unaccepted by society, yet people seem to pacify themselves by killing criminals. Is that not considered to be murder? Sentencing a criminal to death does not solve the questions and problems that are left behind. Parents will still cry for a child that is never coming home. Mourning families will still carry a never-ending hearta...
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Day To Day Children And Adults
1,663 wordster> What is Autism? Autism affects more than 400, 000 Americans, between 10 and 20 of ever 10, 000 people in the United States (Mayo). Autism is a developmental disability of the brain, much like dyslexia or attention deficit disorder. Autism is not a form of mental retardation, and though many autistic people act like they are retarded, but a lot of times they are very intelligent. People need to be aware of what is, what causes it, who it is diagnosed, what people with autism are li...
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Death Row Inmates Inmates On Death Row
932 wordsDeath by execution has existed as a punishment since the dawn of time. Yet although this has existed seemingly forever, the question of its morality has also existed for that same amount of time. Killers kill innocent people, there is no question about that, but does that give us the right to kill these killers? I do not think so. Racism is often the driving force behind crime. Yet in a justice system that preaches equality, it too is led by racism. There is "a pattern of evidence indicating rac...
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Neural Tube Defects Central Nervous System
1,262 words... b. /March 1991). Spontaneous errors in development, whose causes are unknown, can happen in the central nervous system, face, gut, genitourinary system, and heart as shown in Table 2. The time during pregnancy which these may occur is also is also shown in Table 2 and ranges from twenty-three days to twelve weeks, all which fall into the first trimester. How these anomalies are triggered in birth defects is unknown. Neural Tube Defects, which causes are also unknown, are some of the most com...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2,697 wordsFetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a set of physical and mental birth defects that can result when a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy. When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, such as beer, wine, or mixed drinks, so does her baby. Alcohol passes through the placenta right into the developing baby. The baby may suffer lifelong damage as a result. FAS is characterized by brain damage, facial deformities, and growth deficits. Heart, liver, and kidney defects also are common, as well as vision an...
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Colonial America Colonial Period
549 wordsNot much is known about idiocy in colonial America. A state equivalent to psychological retardation, idiocy has been abandoned in studies of the American colonies partially because of the scarcity of documentation and partly because of the unconcern of scholars. Those studies, which do touch on idiocy, leave disjointed, unfinished, and, sometimes, inexact impressions of the ways colonists thought about and reacted to the condition. In 1983 Richard Scheerenberger, in his account of cerebral retar...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
2,564 wordsDisabilities Many children and teenagers suffer different sorts of disabilities and disorders, like attention deficit or learning disability, which may affect the development and behavior of such children and cause difficulties with education. A child with any sort of diagnosed disability requires a lot of attention, proper treatment and help from people around: parents, friends, teachers, etc. It is necessary to provide students, who suffer psychological disorders of various levels, with specia...
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Neural Tube Defects Central Nervous System
2,539 wordsDevelopment of the Human Zygote November 16, 1995 Hundreds of thousands of times a year a single-celled zygote, smaller than a grain of sand, transforms into an amazingly complex network of cells, a newborn infant. Through cellular differentiation and growth, this process is completed with precision time and time again, but very rarely a mistake in the blueprint of growth and development does occur. Following is a description of how the pathways of this intricate web are followed and the mistake...
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Children With Down Syndrome Child With Down Syndrome
1,179 wordsDown Down Syndrome 4 Introduction Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality. It is the most frequent form of mental retardation and is characterised by well-defined, distinctive phenotypic features and natural history. An error in cell development results in forty-seven chromosomes rather than the usual forty-six. There are three major types of Down syndrome. About ninety-five percent of individuals with Down syndrome have Trisomy 21. There is also Translocation and Mosaicism. Down syndrome can...
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Children With Down Syndrome People With Down Syndrome
1,767 wordsDown Down Syndrome Down Syndrome Down syndrome is a combination of birth defects including some degree of mental retardation and characteristic facial features. It is also called trisomy 21. Down syndrome occurs when there is an abnormality in chromosome 21. It is found in approximately 1 out of 1000 all live births. Each year, 3, 000 to 5, 000 people are diagnosed with Down syndrome in the United States. The formal story began in 1866, when a physician named John Langdon Down first described a ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Mental Retardation
608 wordsfetal alcohol syndrome The 1990 s is witnessing the significant impact alcohol-related birth defects are having on our society. These birth defects are caused by maternal use of alcohol during pregnancy which are irreversible, yet preventable. The most severe outcome, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), to the less easily diagnosed fetal alcohol effects (FAE). The incidence of FAS is estimated at. 33 per 1, 000 live births. The estimated incidence of FAE is three times that of FAS. With an annual cost...
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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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Easy To Understand Mental Retardation
280 wordsIn the story, Fish Head by John Hertz, the subjects of human grief and mental retardation are discussed in a matter that makes the reader retain the theme with little difficulty. First, the story is unusual and, therefore, it appeals to the readers imagination. Next, the story is easy to understand in that it uses language that is plain and simple. Finally, the story appeals to a large level of people and social classes. This story explores the topics of human grief and mental retardation in a m...
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Mentally Retarded Mental Retardation
639 wordsFragile X Syndrome is an inherited genetic condition associated with mental retardation. It is caused by a mutation of the X chromosome. Fathers cannot pass the disease onto their sons, because females always give an x chromosome where a man gives either an x or a y. If a man gives a y chromosome, then the result is a boy baby, and since the disease is only carried in the x chromosome, a boy can only inherit this disease from his mother. A girl, on the other hand, can inherit the disease from ei...
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Mental Retardation Genetic Disorders
577 wordsThe Mental Retardation Mental Retardation The term Mental retardation or Mentally challenged which most people prefer, is when a person can t really think for themselves. The person can t do what most normal people can do such as communicate with others properly or be able to do schoolwork, also they have a low attention span. For example if you were talking to them for let s say 20 minutes, maybe after ten minutes they would get frustrated and their mind would be wondering somewhere else and it...
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One Of The Most Common Amino Acids
1,323 wordsGenet Phenylketonuria: Pku Danielle Woods Genet 351, K. Owens Research paper Phenylketonuria: PKU Phenylketonuria also known as PKU once had irrevocable and detrimental damage to the people it effected. Babies that were born with the genetic disorder were certain to suffer from severe mental retardation and behavioral disorders because no one knew what was causing the symptoms. Until 1934 when a biochemist and doctor named A. Following from Norway discovered the disease through urine testing. (M...
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