Module II Special Needs (Guest lecture) Flashcards
The following are considered what type of special needs:
- Asthma
- Arthritis
- Blindness/Visual Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Cancer
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- ETC
Medical or Physiological
The following are considered what type of special needs:
- Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias.
- Depression, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders.
- Eating disorders
- Personality disorders
- PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia
Psychological
The following are considered what type of special needs:
- Dementia/Alzheimers
- Sustained Attention
- Response Inhibition
- Slow or Impaired Information Processing
- Cognitive Flexibility and Control
- Multiple Simultaneous Attention
- Working Memory
- Category Formation
- Pattern Recognition
Cognitive Skills
The following are considered what type of special needs:
- Vulnerable older adults
- Anti-social behavior
- Inadequate healthcare
- Underinsured
- Socioeconomically
- disadvantaged
- Unemployment o Poverty
- Cultural challenges
- Immigrants with English limitations
- Malnourished
- Drug abuse
- Alcohol abuse
- Substance abuse
- Sexual abuse: Rape, early pregnancy, female genital mutilation.
- Prostitution
Social
age of 18; Prader-Willi Syndrome
the first three years of life;
neurological;
can’t tell you the words
Autism’s associated behaviors occur in approximately ____ of every ____ individuals.
1; 68
Down syndrome
low muscle tone
cognitive delays
Spina Bifida
anywhere
does not form and close
Cerebral Palsy
brain
muscles
problems
CP does not get _____ over time, though the exact symptoms can ____ over a person’s lifetime.
worse
change
People with PWS have a flaw in the _____ part of their brain, which normally registers feelings of hunger and satiety
hypothalamus
People with 22q13 deletion syndrome commonly have ____ abnormalities that are often present from birth,
heart
When you interact with people with disabilities, talk ________ , not to their companions, aides, or interpreters. Just because a person with a disability can’t speak (or wont speak) doesn’t mean they can’t hear and understand what you say.
directly to them
Sensory Overload – high pitched tools, bright lights, smells, textures all these things play a comforting role. If a patient seems overwhelmed _______. You may have to turn the _____ on your Loupes, hand scale only or use toothbrush first, no prophy paste, no fluoride
simplify things; light off
educating the ______ is just as important as educating the patient. Everything we go over should be reviewed with them as well.
parent/care giver
