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boss penguin
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Mental problems |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| mrsquirrel wrote: |
A girl with possibly trisomy 21 but maybe not.
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How can you possibly say that? Do you have a medical background? ?Why would you even say Trisome 21...everyone else in the world would say Down's Syndrome. |
I don't see any problem with that. I understood Trisomy 21 and have had such students in special classes. I don't have any right now but I do have one who appears to have Klinefelter's Syndrome and another with Turner's.
The student who arrived discolored one day was suffering Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.
The student who swore it wasn't she had to be suffering from Capgras' Syndrome.
Back when I began teaching I had student with phocomelia but I haven't seen one of them in decades. We nipped the teasing in the bud at the beginning and it wasn't a problem after that.
My hypospadias student once suffered an embarassing accident in class. We idin't see him for a few days after that.
Another student seems fine whenever he shows up but that is rare so I am almost sure his mother is suffering from Munchhausen's Syndrome by Proxy.
I once found a student naked with a rope around his neck. I thought I had just prevented a suicide in someone with Manic-Depression but it turns out he was merely indulging his paraphilia, Auto-erotic Asphyxia.
I can't say I have actually had any but frequently I'd swear that a significant proportion of some of my classes suffer from anencephaly, Others seems to be experienceing Catatonic Schizophrenia.
Not a student but a recent poster on this forum suffers from Hereditary Spherocytosis while I myself have beta-Thalassemia.
So I guess we all got special needs. No biggie. |
I'm trying to identify your tone. Satyrical? Sarcastic? Senseless?
Infants born with anencephaly are usually blind, deaf, unconscious, and unable to feel pain. They usually die of cardioresiratory arrest within a few hours of birth.
Is your post simply flamebait? |
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Squid
Joined: 25 Jul 2003
Location: Sunny Anyang
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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A reasonable school will appraise its teaching staff of kids with special needs, including the correct medical terminology and dealing with emergency situations, required meds...etc.
Yes, a society may well be judged upon how well it treats its less fortunate... Korea seems to have a ways to go in this regard.
There are also arguments against integration of special needs kids into normal schools including disruption to other students learning and alienation of the kid in question as another poster touched on. Partial integration seems most effective, but is expensive...
We could go on... |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure with kids with mental development problems. But if you work outside of the big cities, in the villages (~면), of the counties (~군)and cities (~시), many students don't live with their parents. They live with their relatives, usually grandparents, aunts or uncles. And most of these kids haven't seen their parents in years. |
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Squid
Joined: 25 Jul 2003
Location: Sunny Anyang
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, a direct result of the stigma mental disability or illness carries in Korean culture... not only afflicting the individual concerned but the wider family.
Despite the efforts of many people here to begin changing attitudes toward mental illness a culture so ingrained will take generations to change, however hopefully most of *us (non-Koreans) can at least lead by example.
Dudes.... |
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jodemas2
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Mental problems |
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| boss penguin wrote: |
...Infants born with anencephaly are usually blind, deaf, unconscious, and unable to feel pain. They usually die of cardioresiratory arrest within a few hours of birth.
Is your post simply flamebait? |
The central feature of anencephaly is the lack of a brain. If you are unable to see the irony of that in my light-hearted post, I am sorry.
| boss penguin also wrote: |
Hey A$$hole, Has anyone ever told you to think before speaking, or in this case typing? You really are an insensitive, sonuvabich.
Freak? Screwy in some way? like a howler monkey? what ever happened to political correctness!! You're not a poet. You're a chiseler. |
So tell us, boss, why are you so angry? |
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boss penguin
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: Mental problems |
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| jodemas2 wrote: |
The central feature of anencephaly is the lack of a brain. If you are unable to see the irony of that in my light-hearted post, I am sorry.
So tell us, boss, why are you so angry? |
Close. But not entirely accurate. Here's a free lesson: Anencephaly is the failure of the cephalic end of the neural tube to close during the 23-26th week of pregnancy, resulting in the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp. They do have a brain. But it's exposed, and lacking the neocortex. Remeber Psychology 101? The neocortex is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language. But I'm sure you already knew that. To reitterate they have a brain but will never gain consciousness usually die within a few hours of birth of the mother hasn't already aborted the fetus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
To answer your question. I'm sick and tired of the motherloving snkes on this mother loving forum.
All I ask for is a little respect, humility and humanity in describing your experiences with special needs and developmentally delayed individuals.
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| All I ask for is a little respect, humility and humanity in describing your experiences with special needs and developmentally delayed individuals. |
You are sofa king we Todd did. |
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boss penguin
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchieluver wrote: |
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| All I ask for is a little respect, humility and humanity in describing your experiences with special needs and developmentally delayed individuals. |
You are sofa king we Todd did. |
I am NOT a human being, I am an animal! |
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