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Facts About Down Syndrome
Down Syndrome Named after John Langdon Down, the first physician to identify the syndrome, Down syndrome is the most ...
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Mental Retardation: Causes and Prevention
Mental retardation is caused by many factors; many of these are known, but others remain unidentified (The Arc, 2005). ...
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Resources for Coping Responses of Parents
The ability of parents to respond to the stress of having a child with a disabling condition is based on two categories ...
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Down Syndrome
DefinitionDown syndrome is the most common and readily identifiable chromosomal condition associated with mental ...
Source: National Dissemination Center for Children With Disabilities
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Play Therapy, Historical Development. Roots in Special Education
Treatment of children is a relatively new concept in the mental health field. The child mental health movement appears ...
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Impact of Disabilities on Siblings
Even in the most functional and healthy family, there are emotional overlays for siblings. However, siblings of ...
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Children with Intellectual Impairments
Up until the later years of the 1960s, there existed, even among professionals, a serious misconception about the play ...
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Developmental Disabilities
What are developmental disabilities?Developmental disabilities are birth defects related to a problem with how a body ...
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Mental Retardation
DefinitionMental Retardation means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with ...
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Characteristics of Children with Mental Retardation
Mental retardation means substantial limitations in age-appropriate intellectual and adaptive behavior. It is seldom a ...
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Down Syndrome
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that results from a chromosomal abnormality causing a number of physical and ...
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Reactions to the Birth of a Child with Disabling Conditions
Although there are similarities in the ways parents react to the birth of a child with a disabling condition, there are ...
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Extremes of Intelligence: Mental Retardation and Giftedness
No matter how we choose to define and assess intelligence, it is true that there will be a wide range of individual...
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Mental Retardation Defined
Two different definitions of mental retardation are used in the United States today. Most states follow IDEA '04, the...
