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DUBAI // The challenges of raising a child with disabilities in the Emirates came into focus this week after police said they were looking for a way to file a legal case against parents who had abandoned their six-month-old baby in a Dubai hospital. The parents did so after learning that the boy suffered from epilepsy and neurological disorders

UAE's Tawam Hospital opens Down syndrome clinic

Zaineb Al Hassani

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/tawam-hospital-opens-down-s-syndrome-clinic-1.1088557

Al Ain: In association with Johns Hopkins Medical, Tawam Hospital has inaugurated a new specialiswed clinic for infants and children diagnosed with Down’s syndrome.

According to the World Health Organisation, Down syndrome is present in one out of about 1,000 live births.

In the US alone, about 6,000 babies a year are born with the chromosomal abnormality, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, amounting to about one in every 700 births.

A 2007 study looking at more than 63,000 newborns in Dubai, between 1999 and 2003, estimated the incidence to be one in every 449 live births. Among Emiratis, this rate increased to one in 319.

Disability Vocabulary

Word	Meaning	Example/Notes/Related words
Disability/ies (n)		Disabled (adj); disabled person
Handicap (n)		Handicapped (adj)
Ability (n)		Able/unable (adj)
Impairment (n)		Impaired (adj)
Activity limitation
Participation restriction
Support (v) (n)
aid (n) (v)
Mobility (n)
Access (n) (v)
Inclusion (n)		Inclusive (adj)
Quota (n)
Assistive technology
Special education
Special needs

Make a list of aids/equipment for people with special needs:

Frankie's Family

Frankie’s Family

I have three sisters and a brother and my mother and father are still alive. My mother is 92 and my father 94.

· My father has problems walking for any distance

· My mother has Alzheimer’s

· My sister Carol has a learning disability. She is 60 and cannot read, write or tell the time or use money

· My brother John suffers from SAD ( Seasonal Affective Disorder)

· My sister Rachel has OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

· My other sister Asperger's syndrome?

· My children Jessye and Jordy are dyslexic but are both doing well a university because they had special needs education

· My ex-husband suffered from severe depression

· My niece and nephew have both been diagnosed with bi-polar disease

· I have three friends with autistic children

· I have a friend who has adopted a Down’s syndrome baby

How many people with disabilities do you know?

Really think about it. Some disabilities are not really known or talked about much in the UAE.

When I came to the UAE 15 years ago, my students told me that Emiratis never had depression but if they did would go to the Mutawa. Now there is a counselor at ADMC. Why do people talk about diabetes but not about depression?

Things are changing in the UAE. Now there are more facilities for people with special needs and people’s attitudes are changing. More young people have a chance to meet their full potential

What is the most important thing for changing people’s attitudes?

Stephen Hawking

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

USA Map - ethnocentric!

Americans are ethnocentric!

How do Emiratis see the world? How ethnocentric are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSJFBeVFtak

(If you don't like music, turn the sound down.)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Your Blog (2)

Cultural Diversity Blog (2)

By the end of class today you should have the following on your blog:-

· Ethnocentric Cartoon Task (Answers on one document – without lines)

· Drawing of ethnocentric situation

· A Class Divided ( a summary and your opinion)

· Are Emiratis Ethnocentric? ( Use the Americans are Ethnocentric Map - five sentences)

You should also have three completed reflections saved on your Reflective Log on your computer not on the blog.

If you do not know anything about Martine Luther King and Nelson Mandela you are strongly advised to watch the videos on the blog

Have a Wonderful Eid

Frankie

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