Category: Disability

  • Duties of Learning Disability Nurses

    Table of Contents Introduction Roles of the Learning Disability Nurses Types of Care a Nurse May Provide to the Person in the Scenario Conclusion References Introduction Learning Disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that causes problems in interpreting information fed to the brain either through hearing, seeing, or touching. Unlike other medical terms that can…

  • Nutritional Necessities of Individuals with Disabilities

    This article highlights the nutritional necessities of all adults, children, and youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities with special care needs. Ptomey & Wittenbrook (2015), center their discussion on patients with CYSHCN and IDD special care needs. The research aims at developing nutrition interventions suitable to these populations. The authors explain that these groups experience…

  • Euthanasia: Physician-Assisted Suicide, Disability, and Paternalism

    Voluntary euthanasia can be defined as a case when the person wants to die and requires assistance. Involuntary euthanasia, on the other hand, means that such a person would prefer to live but has a condition that would cause their death eventually, and the suffering from this condition cannot be alleviated. Murder can be defined…

  • People With Disabilities: Lockdown-Related Disparities

    The article by Jesus et al. (2021) focuses on examining disparities that people with disabilities had to experience during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic because of social distancing and lockdown policies. The authors defined that the pandemic disproportionally affected people with disabilities and negatively influenced their health due to a lack of disability-inclusive…

  • Managing Students with Developmental Disabilities

    The term special need is used in clinical diagnostic and functional development to refer to persons who require help to deal with disability. The special needs may be medical, psychological, or mental in nature. Boer, Pijl, and Minnaert (2011) are of the opinion that different nations adopt varying definitions of the condition. In the UK,…

  • Teaching Students with Mild Disabilities: Instructional Technique

    Table of Contents Introduction Main Text Conclusion References Introduction Nowadays approximately 130,000 somehow disabled children are born within the USA. (Debbie Tipton, 2002) The disabilities these babies have vary in their degree, progression and they also vary in their form. The researches, done in this sphere include the publications, devoted to the methods of teaching…

  • Including Students With Severe Disabilities

    Table of Contents Introduction Purpose of the article Relevant studies Research questions addressed Proposed changes to current conditions Use of tables and figures to indicate results Research limitation Conclusion Recommendation References Introduction Numerous models and philosophies of positive behavior support (PBS) were studied as well as the participations concerning persons with severe disabilities. In this…

  • Social-Behavioral Skills of Elementary Students with Physical Disabilities

    The article Socialbehavioral skills of elementary students with physical disabilities included in general education classrooms written by Coster, W. J. and Haltiwanger J. T. in 2004 discusses the problem of teaching the children with physical disabilities. It is the main idea and the purpose of the research related to this problem and helpful for those…

  • Health Liberties of People With Disabilities

    The ethical dilemma discussed in the article by Bannerman, Sheldon, Sherman, and Harchik (1990) focuses on people with disabilities and their liberties associated with their health conditions. On the one hand, the exercise of personal choices by patients seems to be their inherent right. In its turn, the option of patients poses the threat of…

  • Issue Relevant to Learners With High Incidence Disabilities

    Introduction Approximately eighty five percent (85%) of the students recognized as having disabilities also have learning disorders, mental retardation, communication problems, or expressive disabilities. A considerable ratio of students with higher-incidence disabilities are attended in the common education classroom. In several cases, causes of these high-incidence disabilities are generally unknown, even though diverse biological as…