Impact of Child Disability 2017
Impact of Child Disability 2017
✤ Sensory disabilities affect one or more senses; sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste
or spatial awareness (e.g. autism, blindness, and hearing loss).
✤ Community services
✤ Counseling
The Social Model of Disability
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E.g. 1 Access
Social model = Add ramp
Medical model = No solution to help
wheelchair users climb stairs.
Excludes from many spaces and activities
E.g. 2 Child with
visual impairment
wants to read a best
seller
Social model = make full-text
audio-recordings when book 1st
published
Medical model = no solution,
excludes /limits activities
Watch"Chronicle" - A Look at Life Today with Down Syndrome
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What can we
do?
advocacy
volunteer
What support is available in Qatar?
Watch: Shafallah Center For Persons With Disabilities (time 7.19)
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Etiology (often no cause identified)
Clinical presentation = Key features
✤ sometimes ADHD
DSM 5: Intellectual disability = impairments of general mental
abilities that impact adaptive functioning in 3 domains which
determine how well an individual copes with everyday tasks.
✤ Conceptual domain includes skills in language, reading,
writing, math, reasoning, knowledge, and memory.
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Social domain refers to empathy, social judgment,
interpersonal communication skills, the ability to make and
retain friendships.
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Practical domain centers on self-management in areas such
as personal care, job responsibilities, money management,
recreation, and organizing school and work tasks.
Intelligence
✤ Mental age (MA) = intellectual
functioning
✤ MA/CA x 100 = IQ
✤ Normal/average IQ 90-109
✤ Physiotherapy
✤ Pharmacotherapy
✤ Family support
✤ Assistive technology