17 October 2010

Deafness Delicate motionally Handicaps Maladjustments Physically Handicapped and Autistic Children

Deafness is genetically inherited.Accidents can cause deafness in some children. The numbers of deaf children seem to be higher than those of blind,in the world.Deaf children are slow learners because their depend on lip reading and signs only.Where possible hearing aids do help ,but deaf children take twice as much time as children who can hear ,to do the same academic task.
Delicate Children have heart problems and cannot stand the vigorous activities of the playground and classroom of the ordinary school.These children need special protective arrangements and they can be retained in normal classroom if they don't pose serious problems.
Physically Handicapped Children suffering from other defects ,other than hearing and sight problems include the crippled children with damaged joints or limbs.These physical deformities may be as result of either genetic inheritance ,or taking of dangerous drugs by the mother during pregnancy or damaged due to exposure to the dangerous environments.These disabilities hinder the educational progress of the child.
The genetic and physical damage cause the child to be maladjusted.The physical handicaps caused both by genetic and environmental factors.The child with physical disabilities have difficulties in learning if the environment is not helpful.
Children have tremendous quality of quickly recovering.They can do well even when they come from difficult homes and have suffered serious illnesses.The child who is seriously handicapped and the environment is totally unhelpful can not adjusted to improve learning.
Therefore teachers play an important in enabling children to overcome their physical problems and learn not only to help themselves ,but also to become useful and respectable members of the community.Teachers should be aware of these children and offer them valuable help in the classroom.
Emotionally Handicaps
Maladjustments :Emotional disturbance is common in children.Child (1978:273)says,"It would seem that upwards of 15%of school children in primary schools in Britain experience strong,debilitating (weakening)influences from their emotional stress".Although the writer not yet reveiwed the current figures many countries including Zimbabwe do not measure emotional disturbance in children.However there are lots of children suffering from emotions.
Maladjustment is when the child 's emotions such as anger ,tears,lack of concentration ,changing moods and irresponsibility become so grave to the affection of social development.This implies that behaviour is judged in terms of a society's existing standards.
In adolescents for instance, in search of adult standards ,values and priviledges may appear to some be suffering from behaviour disorders.,whereas parents may take it to be healthy development sign.Child in African society can be considered maladjusted if he challenged his father on family issues ,but nowadays such children are now considered to be intelligent.The symptoms of maldjustment range from mild to severe and don't necessarily signify maladjustment .Some can be dealt with by parents.Only severe cases need to consult specialists.
Autistic Children from the word auto means self ,it is a specific handicap.Autism is caused by a disability in interpreting sensory experiences,particulary hearing and seeing. Symbols are difficult to detect ,hence children have great difficulty in acquiring language.
Some causes of autism are brain damages and inherent emotional bleakness(mental bare and cheerless).Autistic children lack communication contact because of their sight or speech between themselves and others,like their teachers and parents.
The speech is grossly distorted and retarded. Perceptual experiences such as sights ,sounds ,heat and pain may be ignored ,while others like music and regular beats may be hyponotic.

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