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Means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment.

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Health Impairment

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Asthma

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Respiratory System dysfunction, essentially an inflammation of the lungs which results in chronic breathing difficulty. Also known as Bronchial Asthma.

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Greek word of Asthma

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Asthaino

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Difficulty in breathing, often associated with lung or heart disease and resulting in shortness of breath.

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Dyspnea

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Symptoms of Asthma

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  • Coughing
  • Wheezing
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath
  • Rapid breathing
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Treatments for Asthma

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  • Bronchodilators
  • Corticosteroids
  • Anti-inflammatories
  • Asthma inhalers
  • Limit outdoor activities
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Types of Asthma

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  • Extrinsic
  • Intrinsic
  • Mixed
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Type of Asthma:

  • Allergic
  • Dust mites
  • pollen
  • animal dande
  • smoke
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Extrinsic Asthma

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Type of Asthma:

  • Non-allergic
  • more common in adults than in children
  • usually the secondary to chronic or recurrent infections of the bronchi, sinuses, or tonsils and adenoids.
  • hypersensitivity to the bacteria causing the infections.
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Intrinsic Asthma

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Due to a combination of extrinsic and intrinsic factors

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Mixed Asthma

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A metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose in the blood.

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Diabetes

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Symptoms of Diabetes

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Symptoms:

  • Very dry skin
  • Extreme hunger
  • Excessive thirst
  • Frequent urination
  • Sudden vision changes
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • More infections than usual
  • Sores that are slow to heal
  • Feeling very tired much of the time
  • Tingling or numbness in hands or feet
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Types of Diabetes

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Type 1 and Type 2

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Type of Diabetes:

  • Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) or Juvenile-Onset Diabetes
  • A chronic illness characterized by the body’s inability to produce insulin due to the autoimmune destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. (Hypoglycemia)
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Type 1 Diabetes

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Symptoms

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Symptoms:

  • Polyuria - the need to urinate frequently
  • Polydipsia - excessive drinking as a result of thirst Polyphagia - eats excessive amounts of food
  • Unexplained weight loss
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Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes

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Insulin

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Type of Diabetes:

  • Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) or Adult-Onset Diabetes
  • Hyperglycemia or high blood sugar – an excessive amount of glucose circulates in blood plasma.
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Type 2 Diabetes

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Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes

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Symptoms:

  • Bladder, kidney, skin or other infections that are more frequent or heal slowly
  • Fatigue
  • Hunger
  • Increased Thirst
  • Increased Urination
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Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes

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  • Diet control
  • Exercise
  • Home blood glucose testing
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A transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

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Epileptic Seizure

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Usually defined as a tendency to recurrent seizures

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Epilepsy

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Two Types of Epilepsy

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Generalised Seizure and Partial Seizure

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These occur if the abnormal electrical activity affects all or most of the brain. Tend to be general and involve much of your body.

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Generalised Seizure

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Your whole body stiffens, you lose consciousness and your body shakes due to uncontrollable muscle contractions.

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Tonic-clonic Seizure

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Mainly occur in children. Loss of consciousness or awareness. It usually lasts only a few seconds.

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Absence Seizure

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A sudden contraction of the muscles. These can affect the whole body but often occur in just one or both arms.

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Myoclonic Seizure

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Brief loss of consciousness, you may become stiff and fall to the ground.

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Tonic Seizure

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Causes you to become limp and to collapse, often with only a brief loss of consciousness.

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Atonic Seizure

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Also called focal seizures the burst of electrical activity starts in and stays in one part of the brain.

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Partial Seizure

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Strange sensations in one arm or leg. You may develop an odd taste, or pins and needles one part of your body. You do not lose consciousness.

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Simple Partial Seizure

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Arise from a temporal lobe but may start in any part of the brain. You may behave strangely for a few seconds or minutes: odd emotions, fears, feelings, vision or sensations.

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Complex Partial Seizure

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A condition in which the heart can’t pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. Also called a cardiovascular disease. May refer to heart disease or heart failure.

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Heart Condition

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Happens when there is a sudden blockage to an artery that supplies blood to an area of your heart.

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Heart Attack

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A major cause of disability, with many people reporting problems or needing assistance with daily activities.

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Coronary Heart Disease

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A blood clot in one of the deep veins of your body, usually in your leg.

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Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

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Is one of a number of disorders commonly referred to as “arrhythmias”, where your heart does not beat normally.

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Atrial Fibrillation

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Is an inherited condition in which your body doesn’t remove enough cholesterol from the blood This causes high total blood cholesterol levels and early onset of coronary heart disease in some families.

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Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

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A condition in which your heart muscle becomes inflamed and enlarged.

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Cardiomyopathy

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Also known as hypertension The pressure of your blood in your arteries as the heart pumps it around your body.

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High Blood Pressure

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A fatty substance produced naturally by your body and found in your blood.

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High Cholesterol

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An awareness of your heartbeat.

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Palpitations

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A chest pain or discomfort caused by insufficient blood flow and oxygen to the muscle of the heart.

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Angina

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A temporary discomfort or pain that is caused by a temporary spasm in one or more of your coronary arteries.

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Coronary Artery Spasm

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A sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement.

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Spasm

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Is an inherited condition that affects the blood’s ability to clot deep internal bleeding causing muscle swelling and joint pain.

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Hemophilia

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Symptoms of Hemophilia

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By far the most serious sites bleeding are:

  • Joints
  • Brain
  • Muscles
  • Digestive Tract Nonstop bleeding from cuts
  • Bruises and swells easily
  • Painful joints
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Types of Hemophilia

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Hemophilia A, B, and C

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Type of Hemophilia:

  • Due to factor VIII deficiency
  • Factor VIII - an essential blood-clotting protein
  • causes increased bleeding
  • usually affects males
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Hemophilia A

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Type of Hemophilia

  • Due to factor IX deficiency  Factor IX - a rare genetic bleeding disorder in which affected individuals have insufficient levels of a blood protein
  • also known as Christmas disease named after Stephen Christmas, the first patient described with this disease.
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Hemophilia B

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Type of Hemophilia:

  • Affecting both sexes
  • It is caused by a deficiency of coagulation factor XI Coagulation – the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel
  • Distinguished from Haemophilia A and B by the fact it does not lead to bleeding into the joints
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Hemophilia C

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Occurs when some part of the hearing malfunction with resulting to hearing loss and possible impairment or loss of the ability to speak.

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Hearing Impairment

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So severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing with or without amplification.

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Deafness

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Three Types of Deafness

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Conductive, Sensorineural, and Mixed

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Resulting from damage of external or middle ear. Can often be medically or surgically corrected.

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Conductive Deafness

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A spongy-bone growth around the stirrup which impedes its movement.

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Otosclerosis

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Results from malfunctioning of the Cochlea or auditory nerve. It involves a reduction in sound level or ability to hear faint sounds, but also affects speech understanding or ability to hear clearly.

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Sensorineural Deafness

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CAUSES OF CONDUCTIVE DEAFNESS:

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Causes of Conductive Deafness:

  • Otitis Media
  • Excessive Earwax
  • Otosclerosis
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CAUSES OF SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS

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Causes of Sensorineural Deafness:

  • Viral disease
  • RH Incompatibility
  • Hereditary factors
  • Exposure to noise
  • Aging
  • Ototoxic medications
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Damaged in the outer or middle ear and in the inner ear (cochlea) or auditory nerve. Combination of Conductive and Sensorineural.

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Mixed Deafness

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Introduced the idea that persons who are deaf can be taught to communicate. He also developed the early form of sign language.

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Jacob Rodrigues Pereira

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Taught Hearing Impaired people to communicate via system of manual signs and symbols. Established the first institution for Hearing Impaired in the U.S.

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Thomas Gallaudet

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A visual-gestural language used as a primary means of communication by a very large population of the deaf and is the third most widely used non-English in the US.

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American Sign Language (ASL)

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Movements of the body parts to express or emphasize ideas and emotions.

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Gestures

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Used by Hearing People learning to communicate with deaf people.

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Pidgin Sign English (PSE)

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Combination of the Oral Method plus finger spelling.

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Rochester Method (Visible English)

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Combines oral method plus signs and finger spelling.

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Simultaneous Communication

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An ideographic language which uses manual symbols apart from the manual alphabet. Commonly used to describe the language of the deaf manual signs.

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Sign Language

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Manual Approach A.K.A. French Method

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Sign Language & Finger Spelling

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Any kind of vision loss. Someone who can’t see at all or partial vision loss. Functional loss of vision.

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Visual Impairment

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Usual problem resulted in a need of special education.

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Partially Sighted

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Refers to severe visual impairment, not necessarily limited to distance vision.

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Low Vision

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A person who has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a very limited field of vision. Students who learn via Braille.

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Legally Blind

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Students who learn via Braille or non-visual media.

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Totally Blind

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