Articles for tag: Apraxia, Handicapped Children, Student Nurse

Children and Mental Retardation (Cognitive Impairment)

The purpose of this paper is to understand the concepts of a child with cognitive impairment ( which is used synonymously with mental retardation). The student nurse will interact with a child with mental retardation (MR) at a developmental center and watch how the nursing process is used in the care of child. Also to ...

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Understanding Special Education for the Learning Disabled

While my bachelor’s and master’s are both in elementary education, I have been a special education teacher for the past 4 1/2 years. My area of special education is in emotionally handicapped. I taught at the high school level for 1 1/2 years and I currently teach at the middle school level. If you feel ...

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Mindball: Game of the Future?

We all know big corporations like to throw ridiculous amounts of money around to entertain their senior executives, but this? The latest trend in corporate team building is a game called Mindball. In a fashion reminiscent of fiction Star Trek technology, players strap control devices to their heads in order to play a competitive game ...

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My Son was Born with Webbed Toes

I had just given birth to a beautiful baby boy. The doctor did the APGAR tests and he got 10’s both times. I was beaming! Praise God, a healthy baby boy! As I held him for the first time, I looked over every square inch of his body. “Look, his toes are stuck together,” I ...