What most people don’t know about Down syndrome is that they can live normal lives and with much therapy and the right education people with the condition can live on their own, have a career, and get married. (Linda Crnic Institute for Down syndrome.) However, helping them is crucial to be able to do everyday things, such as cooking, cleaning, and taking care of personal hygiene. With learning these life skills that most adults learn over time, they need more help and people to work with them. (KidsHealth) To truly help and understand someone with Down syndrome one has to have patience, compassion, and knowledge about the condition. Having this disorder does not hold them back from anything, they can do anything they put their mind too. Yet there are some things and programs to help them along the way, like physical therapy, speech therapy, and a more in depth education. Physical therapy is a more drastic help when the children are smaller. For them learning how to do things other small children do takes a little more time, For instance walking, learning how to play, and interacting with other children. (KidsHealth) It also helps them with normal activities like working on handwriting, dressing themselves and eating. Physical therapy has a huge benefit on the child because it helps so many different areas of his/ her life, like memory skills and learning how to be organized. (KidsHealth) There is no time limit for this process every child with Down syndrome is different and learns at there own pace. In a team of physical therapist there are several that could help a child like: pediatric rehabilitation, physical therapist, nurses, and special educators. They can also come to one’s house for some one on one time with the child.... ... middle of paper ... ...r, If the couple decides to have children the risk increases that their child would have the condition or a miscarriage. Parents raising their children with Down syndrome should know that their child will have a future and should keep that mind when teaching them things about how to live their life. People with Down syndrome have a full life ahead of them and with the correct therapy, education, and the parents raising them right they can do much more and can continue on with no limitations just like anyone else. Children learn how to play, interact with other children, go to school with other kids, and eventually graduate to have future. Adults learn how to live on their own, be independent, and maybe even marriage. So with nothing stopping them they can be successful and happy like many other people, because overall they can do anything they put their mind too.
At some point in a woman's life, she may think of the idea of having a child. Some young girls are taught at a young age that when she grows up, someday she can have a family of her own if she chooses. When I was a child, I remember my mother and other womanly influences telling me that when I'm older, I might have a family of my own; and in result of this, ever since I was little, I have planned out how many children I want to have, and my expectations of my family life. However, while many women see themselves having children someday, and understand the process of carrying a child, some women might be in the dark about the complications that can come along with pregnancy. Life can throw curve balls, and everything that may have been planned, and thought out clearly might not go as smoothly as expected. There are many complications that can occur from pregnancy for mom and baby. In fact, one of the most common complications to occur is Down syndrome. And while Down syndrome may be very common, many women are making the decision to abort their fetuses once they are aware of the disability.
Having Down Syndrome is a Horizontal identity. Most Americans view people with Down’s to be disabled and do not thing much past that. But, many people with Down’s see this simply as a part of who they are, just as much as the color of their eyes. To them, it is not a disability, but just a fact of life. Many outsiders do not understand this, which is why the Down’s community is so important. The Down’s community provides those with Down’s acceptance to their identity. While the rest of society rejects and pities them, within their community they can relate with others and be treated equally. Unlike with vertical identities where the parents are automatically insiders, parents must choose to whether or not to support their children’s horizontal identities. Some parents choose not to accept Down’s before the child is born and terminate the pregnancy while others do their best to make sure their child is comfortable in the world. Again, in more recent years, there are movements for society to be more educated and inclusive for those with Down Syndrome, but there is still a long way to go.
...ility, they are weak and are not as vigorous/ active as kids that don’t have down syndrome. Many kids with translocation down syndrome function differently than others because they have to deal with mental and physical problems unlike others and often need physical therapy. Not only that, kids with this disorder take intervention classes to try to improve the disorder as well as try to improve their physical, mental and intellectual abilities. Also, kids with down syndrome are slow in motor development(the ability to control one’s body movement’s). They also have verbal short-term memory loss.At school, kids with down syndrome should interact with others to build a foundation of social abilities allowing the child to be more sociable and participate in discussions in class. This will improve the level of functioning of a child with translocation down syndrome.
Any child can be born with Down syndrome, which could include your child. Many people don’t really down what Down syndrome is. Around the entire world not many really know what Down syndrome really is and the importance of it. Down syndrome has different causes that one should know about. There are many different types of health issues with Down syndrome. Down syndrome defines all the causes and the different health issues that Down syndrome holds.
Down Syndrome is a condition that cannot be physically passed on from one person to the next. It is a genetic disorder that is inherited through our parents when something goes wrong during pregnancy. As a result, they have a combination of features typical of Down Syndrome, including some degree of cognitive disability, as well as other developmental delays. One thing we should always keep in mind is that they are children and having Down Syndrome comes second.
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder, associated with the presence of an extra chromosome. Downs is characterized by mild to severe mental impairment, weak muscle tone, shorter stature, and a flattened face. Down syndrome is not a very common disease, one in every 691 children are born with Down syndrome. The disability is an illness that people are born with and is not contagious. Most people with Downs have a life expectancy of about 40 or 50 years of age. They only live for that short amount of time because they begin to develop a similar disease to Alzheimer’s. “100% of people with Down syndrome will develop some physiologic signs of Alzheimer’s when they are over 35 years old in the U.S” (Statistics about Down Syndrome). They also die earlier because having Down syndrome increases the risk of leukemia 15-20 times in the US. Therefore most people with Downs will die because of leukemia or heart problems before the age of 50.
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you, and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life"(Burke, C., n.d.). Where special education is concerned, one must always remember that exceptional learners are different, not less.
Physical therapy is the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery. I went through physical therapy as medical intern and as patient. As a medical intern I think physical therapy was very helpful for patient. Since they get to work out while their in the office with the physical therapist that helps them work the muscle that is injured or a deformity. I had patient while I was a intern and the girl had spinda brifia she had several surgery to get her to start walking and it really rewarding to see her to start walking almost by herself. For me when I was on the patient side my physical therapist would make do excuses to work out my back muscle since they were always so tight, then we do some electrical muscle stimulation on my back with a hot or cold pack or sometimes my physical therapist would rub out my back we probably did this routine on and off for about 2 years. Besides physical therapy I would wear a back brace to help when I couldn’t go to the doctor office. Massage therapy is to work and act on the body with pressure. Massage techniques are commonly applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearm, feet, or a device. The purpose of massage is generally for the treatment of body stress or pain. You would usually see have this done at a
We need to work on accepting and including children with Down Syndrome in local schools so that they are given an equal opportunity to advance their education and become successf...
The main goals of physical therapist are to help the patient development coordination, strengthen weak muscles, develop balance, improve endurance, and develop their patients gross motor skills. There are many different types of equipment and exercises used to help the patient reach their goals. The most commonly used pieces of equipment used are the treadmill, the swings, the pediatric scooter, the positioning wedges, gait training, and the turtle therapy system. The treadmill is used to help the patient aim for earlier walking for greater gains. “Physical Therapy for Down Syndrome”. There are two different types of swings physical therapy like to use; the full support swing which aids in sensory integration and the net swing which aims to strengthen limbs (Zuboff). “The pediatric scooter help children develop the strength they need to propel themselves forward which develops proprioceptive strength and neuromotor control” (Zuboff). “Positioning wedges are comfortable tools that help children increase their tolerance to prone position to their body and improves stability and head control” (Zuboff). “Gait training is a great piece of equipment to use to give a children independence to learn how to stand on their own”. The gait training is a harness and pelvic stabilizers (Zuboff). Spinning and rocking are two of the main
First, is taking what they learned in the therapist office and implementing it a home on a daily basis. Children with chronic disabilities need a daily routine for physical therapy, which is needed for improvements. Some parents can get very frustrated with this procedure and that leads to a negative effect on their child, and the way the child sees the parent. Physical therapy should not be taken lightly when dealing with children with disabilities. Parents should be involved in every step of the way (Lucres, Ketelaar, & Vermeer, 2003).
Imagine coming into 4th grade on the first day of school and having the other children look at you funny and not understanding why. Nothing is more devastating than when you are excited to make friends and interact with the other children, but when the teacher hands out assignments and tells everyone to get in small groups, and you are excluded and have to work by yourself or with a teaching assistant. This is what it is like to be a 4th grader with Down syndrome.
Physical therapies do much more of than restore function to traumatize. They work with children with birth defects to overcome to restore movement and independent living. Physical therapy held about one hundred thirty-two thousand jobs in year of two thousand. The number of jobs is greater than a number because of practicing physical therapy become more therapists holds two or more jobs.
I know some families get an abortion because their baby has Down syndrome.
Scott told me she first found out Emily was diagnosed with down syndrome when she first was born. They saw some key identifiers that were typically related to the disease like her fingers etc. Around the time when Emily was born they had to educate themselves using books and the Early Intervention (EI) team, as they were limited with computers. The doctors were very helpful, and Mrs. Scott said it was the doctors first patient with down syndrome so he sat down with them, and was willing to also learn with them. It was not hard at all for them to access the services for the child and the Early Intervention team helped them to do so at about three weeks old in the hospital. However, Mrs. Scott did express some concerns. Emily is 19 years old and approaching the age soon of aging out of the services and to no longer be funded; which is age 21. Pretty soon Emily will no longer be followed through the school district anymore and will eventually result to handling situations on her own, even though they promised to help her as much as they could. Throughout the process Mrs. Scott said the only difficult thing for her was more of the early intervention stage and learning all the new terminology that comes with it. She said “It was a lot of new language for me to learn and it was very difficult to adjust to.” Also, in the school system it was adjusting to the services available for Emily, and they wanted her to be included as much as possible. Mrs. Scott believes that