Caring for Individuals with Additional Needs

Caring for individuals with additional needs

Task 1: outline reasons why individuals may experience additional needs

Down Syndrome:

• Is a genetic condition which is causes learning disability and characteristic range physical features. Most babies born with Down syndrome are diagnosed with the condition after birth. People who have Down syndrome have a number of characteristics but not everyone will have them, these include ;eyes which are slant upwards and outwards, their palm have one cease across it, below the average and length at birth, big space between the first and second toe, small now and flat nasal bridge & a small mouth. Children with Down syndrome develop the communication skills which they need although it might take them longer to do so. Common cognitive and behavioural problems may include; short attention span, poor judgment, impulsive behaviour, slow learning, delayed language and speech development

Cystic Fibrosis;

• Is a genetic condition which the lunch sand the diegetic system boom logged with thick sticky mucus. Symptoms start in early childhood and include; persistent cough, recurring chest and lung infections and poor weight gain. There is no cure for cystic fibrosis but they are treatments which are, antibiotics to treat lung and chest infections, physiotherapy a range of exercises can help to clear mucus from the lungs and bronchodilators a medicine which helps to expand the airways inside the lungs and making it easier to breathe.

Task 2

P2: create a board which describes the four models of disability

There are four Models of disability which are, medical model, social model, economic model and religious model.

Medical model:

• The medical model focus on an individual’s illness or disability. It may reduces an individual's quality of life and causes disadvantage to the individual. The medical model tends to think that curing or managing an illness or disability revolves around by identifying the illness or disability from an in depth medical perspective understanding and learning to control it. The medical model believes that society invest resources in health care and other related services to attempt to cure disabilities medically to expand functionality and to improve functioning to allow a disabled individual to a normal life.

Social Model:

• Identifies systemic barrier, negative attitudes and exclusion by society which means society is main contributory factor in disabling people. Physical, sensory, intellectual or psychological variations may cause individual functional lamination or impairment. These do not lead to disabilities unless society failed to take account of and include people regardless of their individual differences.

Economic model

• Extends the social concept to one of customer needs as opposed to social justice. Under this model disability is defined by a persons inability to participate in work. It assess the degree to which impairment affects an individual’ productivity and the economic consequences for the individual, employer and the state. The economic model is used by policy makers to assess distribution of the benefits to those who are unable to work. Th challenge which economic model faces is how justify and support in purple economic terms, a socially desirable policy of increasing participation in employment.

Religious  model:

• Views disability as a punishment inflicted upon an individual or family. It can be a wrong doing committed by the disabled individual, someone in the family or community. Birth conditions can be due to actions committed in previous reincarnations.

P3: Choose one of the three case studies and provides an essay which explains the barriers which the individual may experience.