Kanika Vaish's List: Understanding Topics

• In their daily lives, they continuously battle exclusion and restriction to their full participation in society, facing discrimination, abuse, and poverty.

  • It isn't fair what people with disabilities have to go through; they deserve everything that 'normal' people do.
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• In their daily lives, they continuously battle exclusion and restriction to their full participation in society, facing discrimination, abuse, and poverty.
• There are many types of disabilities and many degrees; visible or hidden; temporary, permanent or unpredictable; cognitive, developmental and many others.

  • There are many kinds of disabilities fr all age groups.
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• Autism is a brain-cell development disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old.

  • Austism is a mental disorder that children get before the age of 3 years old.
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• Autism affects many parts of the brain; how this occurs is not understood. Parents usually notice signs in the first two years of their child's life. Although early behavioral or cognitive intervention can help children gain self-care, social, and communication skills, there is no known cure.^[8

  • No known cure. Some grow out of their disorder by the time they reach adulthood.
    Some rely on their parents for their whole lives.
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• Seizures are symptoms of abnormal brain function. With the exception of very young children and the elderly, the cause of the abnormal brain function is usually not identifiable.
• Seizures are symptoms of abnormal brain function. With the exception of very young children and the elderly, the cause of the abnormal brain function is usually not identifiable.
• • Brain malformations
  • Lack of oxygen during birth
  • Low levels of blood sugar, blood calcium, blood magnesium or other electrolyte disturbances
  • Inborn errors of metabolism
  • Intracranial hemorrhage
  • Maternal drug use
  • Infection
• • Fever (febrile seizures)
  • Brain tumor (rarely)
  • Infections
• • Congenital conditions (Down’s syndrome; Angelman’s syndrome; tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis)
  • Genetic factors
  • Progressive brain disease (rare)
  • Head trauma

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• Epilepsy is a medical condition that produces seizures affecting a variety of mental and physical functions. It’s also called a seizure disorder. When a person has two or more seizures, they are considered to have epilepsy.
  

• Neglect of the mentally ill   
      Mental patients are being systematically and continuously ignored and denied the social rights they deserve. Therefore,   along with a change in mindset, there is a desperate need for reform in the treatment of the mentally ill in our   country, writes     Debabrata Kanjilal. 

  • The mentally challenged are being ignored.
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