Many children with disabilities usually need more structured and clearly amorphous surroundings, also behaviorally, than a general education classroom can offer. ADHD’s basic signs for children with an ADHD are lack of concentration, hyperactivity, and impulsivity causes child children to cope with day to day school challenges (Zentall, 1993). Children with ADHD have trouble sustaining attention to stay on task; this causes them to miss important details on their assignments, distraction during class activities and difficulty organizing assignments. According to doctor (Russell Barkley), he said that “children with ADD/ADHD have the tendency to fall behind about 30 percent, when it comes to their developmental performance.” In fact, the NIH
The prevalence of this disease is 1/10,000 to 1/15,000 girls worldwide, making it one of the most common genetic causes of severe mental retardation in girls. Rett syndrome is characterized by normal development for the first 6 to 18 months of age, followed by a period of regression in which the girls lose language and motor skills. Purposeful hand use is replaced by repetitive stereotyped hand movements. Decelerating head growth and autistic features such as diminished eye contact and emotional withdrawal also occur. Additional characteristics include anxiety, respiratory dysfunctions, and impairment of sleeping patterns, cardiac abnormalities, seizures, loss of locomotion and bone density deficits.
This experiment took 22 orphaned children some with stutter problems and some without. This study was made with a thesis that states “If stuttering is learned behavior, it can be unlearned.” (Gretchen Reynolds, 2003, mytimes.com). By using this thesis to build an experiment, the children were broken into groups and some were told that there stutter was not as bad as they thought while the remaining children were told that their stutter (which was not existent) was a lot worse than the scientists had expected. Within a months’ time. the children who were told that their stutter was worse became inconsistent with their speech.
Some children develop pebbly or ivory colored skin lesions on the upper arms, legs and back. The degree of advancement is different in each individual, and the range is very broad in the types and severity of symptoms (National MPS Society, 2014). The extent of mental retardation and life expectancy are two of the highest concerns related to Hunter Syndrome. Those with the disease that are not mentally retarded have lived into their 20’s and 30’s. Reports show some have lived to be sixty.
"Neglect" refers to cases in which the court found a child to have no proper parental care or guardianship, or to be homeless or living in a physically dangerous environment. Children for the control group were selected from county birth-record information and records of more than 100 elementary schools. They were matched as closely as possible with the abused and neglected group on age, sex, race and approximate family socio-economic status during the period under study. All together, the researchers were able to find matches for 73.7% of the abused and neglected children. In both the control group and the abused and neglected group, there were equal numbers of males and females and about twice as many whites as blacks.
32,500 children have been neglected in 2010, and in Ingham County 42 percent of children have been abused or neglected (milhs.org). In Ingham County, 8.5 children of every 1000 are in out of home care, referring to foster homes, etc (milhs.org). Unemployment rates and low income is affecting the youth and children in terrible ways. WLNS.COM reported in an article titled “More Michigan Children living in Poverty” that there are a lot of reasons why neglect and abuse has gone up 92%. Now there are more health professionals available to investigate issues of neglect and abuse and family court in Ingham County has become a strong source of help for
It is a neurobiological disorder with a strong heredity factor. It is defined by impairments in social communication, interaction, and repetitive interests. What differentiates it from other typical autism is the absence of significant learning difficulty and with an IQ of 70 or higher. In fact many children with AS meet the criteria for being gifted. More and more children are being diagnosed with AS during the school years.
Poor parenting along with divorce or any separation or abandonment of a caregiver can have effects that would cause BPD. Research affirms that “30% report that they lost or had a prolonged separation from their parents in childhood” (2011, PBS). It is also reported that around 70% of kids who have been sexually or physically abused also have BPD (2011, PBS). This, however, doesn’t mean that everyone in these situations develop Borderline Personality Disorder. It just suggests that instability and childhood neglect and trauma play a heavy roll in the development, just as much as Genetics
Early onset some babies seem to be born with autism and do not develop the typical eye contact and social interaction that should began during the first few months of life. They do not start babbling by nine months and don’t go on to develop language during the second year of life. Fragile X syndrome this disorder is associated with a faulty X chromosome. About one out of ten people with autism are mostly males, having fragile X syndrome, which causes mental retardation. Asperger’s Syndrome, children with this condition are considered a mild form of autism, have consuming interest in, or obsession with one subject often something unusual for their age.
Mandell et al. (2006) examined the disparities in the diagnosis of children with autism using insurance claims of 406 Medicaid-eligible children, including 242 African-American, 118 Caucasian, 33 Latino, and 13 children falling into other categories. They found that African-American children were three times more likely than Caucasian children to receive another diagnosis first and were 2.6 times less likely than Caucasian children to receive an autism diagnosis on their first specialty care visit (Mandell et al., 2006). Once African-American children entered treatment, they required three times the number of visits over a period three times as long as Caucasian children before receiving an autistic disorder diagnosis (Mandell et al., 2006). African-American children were also 5.1 times more likely than Caucasian children to receive a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder than of ADHD, and 2.4 times more likely to receive a diagnosis of