Developmental Disabilities

Many educators now agree that Thomas Edison, the great inventor, probably had A.D.H.D. Thomas Edison was a disaster in school and his teachers considered him to be slow or retarded. There are several brain attention computer programs available which parents can get for their children and that adults with A.D.H.D. can try for themselves. One program,

First described by J. Langdon-Down in 1866, this syndrome was initially called mongolism due to the resemblance in facial appearance to members of the Mongolian race.When my eldest son's second grade teacher, a teacher who adores children and who has taught successfully for over 45 years, gave us this piece of paper with a profile of a kid that she thought was just like our son,

Bed wetting is a disease as defined by the psychologists of the American Psychiatric Association where a child while he is sleeping unknowingly urinates and wets his bed.Autistic disorder is characterized by devastating impairments in a young child's communication and language skills, disinterest in social interaction,

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has had many alternative labels, including attention deficit disorder (ADD), minimal brain dysfunction, hyperkinetic syndromeBed wetting, is a medical condition where the person involved cannot control the passage of urine when sleeping at night.

Prior to 1954 retardation was generally classified by severity of symptoms. Idiot, imbecile, and moron were used to denote abilities roughly equivalent to the IQ ranges of 1 to 30, 30 to 50, and 50 to 70, respectively. Since then these terms have been replaced with less offensive ones.

Despite the poor treatment afforded the retarded, the churches of Europe from the thirteenth century on began to systematically provide asylums for the less fortunate members of society. Normal intelligence is placed at an IQ of 100. Persons scoring below 70 IQ, two standard deviations below the mean, are considered to be mentally retarded.

Any preventive approach must begin with public education. The public must be taught that mental retardation is a handicap that can be studied, treated,Perinatal problems, those occurring during the birth process, include prematurity, anoxemia, and direct injury to the head. Premature infants are those born weighing less than 5 1/2 pounds.

Some individuals show retardation even though no known genetic, hereditary, or physical cause can be found to account for it. Down's syndrome occurs when an extra chromosome in the twenty-first pair is found. While there is no known reason why this occurs, and either parent may contribute the extra chromosome,

Developmental Disabilities

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