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Rehabilitation Services for Persons with Special Needs

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  Abstract In cases where daily living functioning, capacity and ability are suddenly lost or become deficient, rehabilitation services are required to reduce the effect of disability. Persons with special needs require rehabilitation services in form of specially designed programmes to help them re-adjust or compensate for lost capacity/ability and daily living functioning. Where persons who otherwise had the ability to see or hear eventually become blind or deaf, or when persons who have lived and used their limbs suddenly lose any of such limbs (legs or hands), they do require rehabilitation services to re-adjust to daily living functioning. This paper focuses on the types of  rehabilitation services provisions for persons with special needs. Therefore, this paper discusses the conceptual meaning of persons with special needs, meaning of rehabilitation, principles of rehabilitation, medical rehabilitation, psychosocial rehabilitation, educational rehabilitation and vocational rehabi

Life with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Introduction Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most confusing disorders for which not only no exact cause has been identified, but also no definitive cure has been found yet. Autism is a disorder that is usually observed on the child at an early age, affecting various developmental aspects. Its development is abnormal. It shows an imbalance in its social interaction, characterized by repetition of certain behavioral patterns and challenges in verbal and nonverbal communication with others. Over the last few decades, its prevalence showed a dramatic rise; an observation that encouraged many researchers across the globe to try to explore all its aspects from etiology to diagnosis and intervention. Because of the difficulties in managing children with autism, the families encounter many challenges and stresses. What Is Autism? Autism is a wide range or spectrum of brain disorders that is usually noticed in young children. Autism is also referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder o