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Supportive Services Ans✓✓✓Professional social workers also run
groups, develop supportive services and programs , write grants, and
advocate for the passage of legislation that benefits those living with any
type of special need.
What would be the best way to call someone disabled. Ans✓✓✓Social
workers really prefer to use the asset-promoting positive terms of
physical and cognitive challenges and abilities, rather than disability,
when working with client systems.
Co-occurring disabilities Ans✓✓✓People can have experience more
than one disability at a time. Example- when a person with intellectual
challenge also has vision and neurological impairments.
Developing Disability Ans✓✓✓A severe chronic condition that
manifests before the age of 2 and is likely to continue indefinitely. it
may occur because of a genetic predisposition or an issue before, during,
or after the person is born. EX- Autism, cerebral palsy, trisomy 21
(down-syndrome), epilepsy, fetal alcohol syndrome, fragile x syndrome,
prader-willi syndrome.
Prader willi syndrome Ans✓✓✓The most commonly know genetic
cause of life-threatening obesity in children. It causes low levels of sex
hormones, poor muscle tone, and a constant feeling of hunger.
, Learning Disabilities(or differences) Ans✓✓✓Dyslexia(hinders reading
and writing), dyscalculia(hinders math),
dysgraphia(hinders writing, spelling, or putting thoughts onto paper),
dyspraxia(affects motor skill development),
poor executive functioning(governs ones ability to plan, organize and
manage details),
and attention-deficit hyper activity disorder.
Dramatic brain injury
Intellectual Disability Ans✓✓✓The term intellectual disabilities is now
used to describe the same population of individuals who ere diagnosed
previously with mental retardation.
Which of the following is true about the stigma of people living with
disabilities? Ans✓✓✓-People with physical and mental challenges are
often overlooked.
-They are seldom recognized as a group to be included in a national
response to HIV/AIDS and they are likely to be neglected or abandoned
during evacuations in disasters and conflicts due to lack of present,
planning and transportation systems.
-Hoffman identified three forms of social stigma:
Visible or outer deformations such as scars, a cleft lip, or obesity
Deviations in personal rraits, such as mental illness, alcoholism, drug
addiction , or having a criminal background
Imagined or real traits of an ethnic group, nationality, or religion.