Disabilities Articles

Early Intervention for Children with Down Syndrome

Medsavailable1 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:37:02 -0700

Down syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that results in many physical and mental complications in a baby. The condition is also known as Trisomy 21, as this is the extra genetic material that is found in the baby’s DNA, which affects the way the child develops.

What You Should Know about Lip Reading

MedsAvailable — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:18:07 -0700

Sign language is the first thing that hearing-impaired children are usually taught. Indeed, sign language is crucial, as it allows the parents to communicate to their child and back again.

Language Options for Deaf Children

MedsAvailable — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:50:29 -0700

What do you do if you detect a hearing problem in your baby, and it turns out he has impaired hearing? Will life never be normal for your child? Will he always need special education classes or the horror stories you may have heard of these special-needs children never growing up socially active in mainstream circles?

Can ADHD Be a Good Thing?

MedsAvailable — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:09:36 -0600

If ADHD is a “disorder,” then the ideal mind is like this: Slow and deliberate in its thinking, able to focus and concentrate on things at length, and capable of multitasking.

What are Learning Disabilities?

MedsAvailable — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:00:57 -0600

A learning disability is defined as a problem that affects the brain’s ability to accept, process, analyze, or accumulate information. These problems may seem small, but they can make it very difficult to learn as quickly as students without learning disabilities.

Different Types of Dyslexia

MedsAvailable — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:34:15 -0600

The name dyslexia was introduced by a German ophthalmologist R. Berlin in 1884. He invented it out of two Greek words which are dys, which means difficult or sick and lexis, which means word.

Arthritis Natural Remedies

MedsAvailable — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:47:54 -0700

An acute arthritis of the joints of the human body is treated along with various effective natural means for a patient such as eating at least 2-3 cloves of garlic