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81Complete Job Description #1: Part 3 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
This is part three of a series I’m writing on hiring a personal care assistant. Check the bottom of the hub for links to the other parts of the series. The following is an example of a personal-care...
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61Integrating Special Needs Children
There seems to be more and more focus on children with autism than ever. Why do I say this? Because I am the mother of an autistic child. I also work in a class room full of autistic children. Yet...
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58Mentally Challenged Portal
People with mental retardation may be described as having developmental disabilities, global developmental delay, or learning difficulties. The term "Mental retardation" has acquired pejorative and shameful...
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87Down Syndrome, Prenatal Testing and Changing Perceptions of Down Syndrome
People with Down Syndrome, once institutionalized and marginalized, gained acceptance and became fully recognised members of society in the 1970's. But the population of people with Down syndrome is...
67Developmental disabilities
Developmental disabilities is a general term that describes a wide range of disabilities that occur prenatal or during childhood. This heterogeneous category includes global mental retardation, distinct...
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60The Basics of Mental Retardation
Abstract: Mental Retardation affected about 1.5 million people ages 6-64 in the United States in 1993 (www.cdc.gov). MR is the most common of all the developmental disorders. Mental retardation is a term...
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71Social Worker to the Rescue
Here are topics contained in this hub, listed in the order written. Hope it helps you find what you are looking for more easily. 1. Who Is Tori Murrill 2. Comments about the law precluding MediCaid providers...
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73Autism and my son
My son is 20 years old he is a handsome, wonderful, loving and charming young man with autism. He likes things that normally would attract an 8 year old, such as play fire engine trucks and make believe...
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64Autistic Intolerance: Struggling to be Tolerated in the Mainstream World
For a couple of years, I've spent at least part of every day in various libraries; posting articles and blogs on different websites, doing research and other various things on the Internet. It has served as...
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74PDD-NOS High Functioning Autism and my son plus tips I've learned
Is your child normal? My child is not. What is normal anyway? Normal is anything within the expected and acceptable range of behaviors. Kids with high functioning forms of autism like PDD-NOS (Pervasive...
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