Developmental Skills and Down Syndrome

This assignment delves into the developmental skills exhibited by children with Down syndrome. It highlights the importance of interpersonal skills for successful leadership and analyzes how children with DS demonstrate these skills in interactions with others and objects. The text emphasizes the significance of verbal and nonverbal communication, collaboration, and object engagement in social development.

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Case study 1
1. Eight stages of life cycle are:
 Infancy
 Childhood
 Early adolescence
 Late adolescence
 Our 20s
 Our 30s
 Our 40s
 Our 50s and beyond
Right now Dolly is in the stage of late adolescence.
2. Six stages of development which Dolly is experiencing as a child are:
 New born development
 Infant development
 Toddler development
 Preschooler development
 School age development
 Adolescent development
3. Four questions which I can ask as a carer of Dolly are:
 Does she getting irritated all time?
 Did her sleeping patterns changes – increased or decreased?
 Is she is facing the loss of energy and not willing to do anything?

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 Did her appetite changed – eating more or feeling nausea?
4. The importance of keeping of clinical documentation is that it is used for evaluating the
professional practice, to determine the care a patient is needed, it keeps the record of the
patient’s disease and their past history so that in future the case history can be used for
the diagnosis of the treatment.
5. The agitating behavior of Dolly can be caused from many factors. Among which two of
the factors are either depression or functional impairment of brain. In addition to the
antidepressants for treating the disease there are some psychosocial treatments which
include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psycho education and Family therapy.
6. The consistency in this services leads to the better mood management and helps to
manage stress. It also helps to cope up with the depression.
7. For gathering information about Dolly, firstly I had to talk to her and if she behaves
agitatedly then I had calm her down for getting the information about her.
8. Three types of issues of bipolar disease are irritability or anger, depression and loss of
interest in any kind of activities.
9. Three developmental issues are learning disorder evaluation and treatment, including
ADHD; valuation for mood disorders; autism evaluation and treatment.
10. For identifying Dolly’s developmental issue I would like to choose the observation
method.
12. 4 factors that cause the developmental issues are:
 Brain injury
 Infection before, during or after birth,
 Growth or nutrition problems,

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 Abnormalities in genes and poor diet.
13. Three risk factors associated with Dolly’s developmental issue are:
 Pre-natal risks factors incorporate unending maternal disease, certain maternal
contaminations, poison exposures and wholesome insufficiencies.
 Hazard factors in the perinatal period incorporate pregnancy-related confusions,
rashness and low birth weight, and disease introduction amid pregnancy or at time
of birth.
 Absence of access to quality care amid pregnancy, conveyance and not long after
birth can fundamentally, antagonistically influence results for both mother and
youngster, including adding to formative incapacities.
14. 4 health professionals to refer for the developmental issues are doctor, community care
worker, psychotherapist and an attendant.
15. Lawful principles routed to family issues regularly begin in custom-based law, which has
it establishes in legitimate customs acquired from America's initial European lineage.
Precedent-based law by and large alludes to legitimate standards which get from sources
other than formal administrative establishment. The second bunch of lawful gauges most
usually experienced by psychological well-being experts are statutory law and case law.
Statutes are those laws established by authoritative bodies at the neighborhood, state, or
government level, and case law alludes to point of reference setting choices passed on by
courts. At long last, one every so often experiences authoritative laws which bear on
family working. These are regularly named controls and start in the official branch of
government, instead of administrative or legal branches, and as a rule manage
arrangement execution.

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16. Legal obligations of an organisation and/or employees working in the disability service industry
are:
 Working in an ethical framework
 Following the policies
 To protect the clients’ rights
17. Section 64 (1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1989 permits that any individual
who accepts, on sensible grounds, that a youngster is needing insurance may advise a
defensive intervener of that conviction also, of the sensible justification for it. This
implies any individual is deliberately ready to influence a notice to the Child Protection
To benefit when they trust a youngster need security and the tyke's guardians can't or
unwilling to secure the kid. Under this part of the Act, notices are made out of good
reasons, as opposed to since the law has constrained somebody to do as such.
18. Depression. Patients with bipolar turmoil, particularly sort II or cyclothymic issue, have
visit scenes of significant wretchedness. Due to dejection, patients with bipolar turmoil
have an expanded hazard for suicide.
 Nervousness Disorders. Nervousness issue, for example, freeze issue, fears, and
post-horrendous anxiety issue, ordinarily coincide in these patients. Patients who
experience the ill effects of a tension issue notwithstanding bipolar turmoil are at
expanded hazard for suicide.
 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Side effects of bipolar issue in
youngsters are regularly mistaken for consideration deficiency hyperactivity issue
(ADHD). Moreover, the two conditions can correspond.

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 Substance Abuse. Patients with bipolar turmoil much of the time manhandle
medications and liquor. In spite of the fact that medication and liquor mishandle
might be a type of self-prescription, substance manhandle can trigger or intensify
bipolar manifestations. Cigarette smoking is extremely basic among patients with
psychological instability, including bipolar confusion, due partially to nicotine's
consequences for the cerebrum.
19. Issues could affect Dolly’s developmental issues are:
 Some environmental factors such as poverty, housing, employment of the family
members and education.
 Some biological factors such as general health, gender, health practices and
mental health.
 There are some relationship factors are attachment, parenting styles and social
networks.
20. Three professionals to whom I would refer dolly are psychologist, community care worker, and a
gynaecologist. The psychologist will help her in the treatment of mental health, the community
care worker will assist her in her daily activities and she is pregnant she also need a gynaecologist
for her check up.
21. Two detailed examples of principles written in organisation policies and protocols for completing
documentation.
 Security and privacy - All data in a patient/customer's social insurance record is
private and subject to winning protection laws and approaches. Social insurance
records contain wellbeing data which is ensured under enactment.
 Auditing - Social insurance records over all settings and clinical ranges must be
inspected for consistence with this approach. PHOs must set up a system and

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timetable for examining of records and support and assign review instruments and
procedures.
22. Two legislative requirements and provisions are relevant to service delivery and delegated
responsibility. Those are :
 Health Services Act and Health Administration Act
 Work Health and Safety
23. The Medical Model states that inabilities comes about because of a distinct individual’s
physical or psychological constraints, and are detached from the social or geological
situations. It is once in a while alluded to as the Biological-Inferiority or Functional-
Limitation Model.
It is shown by the World Health Organization's definitions, which fundamentally were
conceived by specialists:
 Weakness: any misfortune or variation from the norm of mental or physical
structure.
 Inability: The absence of the capacity of doing any work that is within the limit.
 Handicap: any detriment for an individual, causing because of incapacity.
24. Psychoanalytic theory is a strategy for examining and treating identity issue and is
utilized as a part of psychotherapy. Incorporated into this hypothesis is the possibility that
things that happen to individuals amid adolescence can add to the way they later capacity
as grown-ups. Freud trusted that the psyche is made of two sections - the cognizant
personality and the oblivious personality – and that the oblivious personality regularly

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prompts individuals to settle on specific choices regardless of the possibility that they
don't remember it on a cognizant level.
25. The psychodynamic approach incorporates every one of the speculations in brain science
that see human working in view of the cooperation of drives and powers inside the
individual, especially oblivious, and between the distinctive structures of the identity. this
hypothesis depicts that that our conduct and the mental issues that we endure can be
followed past our cognizant poise - that our intuitive personality, and the inborn driving
forces that we may not know about, are what impact the route in which we carry on.
26. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be utilized to treat individuals with an extensive
variety of emotional wellness issues.
CBT depends on the possibility that how we think (comprehension), how we feel
(feeling) and how we act (conduct) all communicate together. In particular, our
contemplations decide our emotions and our conduct. CBT means to enable individuals
to wind up plainly mindful of when they make negative translations, and of behavioral
examples which fortify the contorted considering. Intellectual treatment causes
individuals to create elective methods for considering and carrying on which plans to
lessen their mental distress.
27. The humanistic and existential approach separates itself from other helpful styles by
including the significance of the customer's subjective experience, and also a worry for
positive development instead of pathology. Though the watchwords for humanistic
psychotherapy validity, compassion and unlimited positive respect, the significant
subjects of existential treatment are the customer's duty and flexibility.

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Humanistic and existential methodologies share a conviction that customers have the
limit with respect to mindfulness and decision; nonetheless, they contrast in their
hypothetical points of view. The humanistic point of view sees human instinct as
essentially great, with a possibility to keep up solid, important connections and to settle
on decisions that are to the greatest advantage of oneself as well as other people. The
humanistic specialist goes with/guides customers to free themselves from presumptions
and positions that may piece them from living more full lives. The therapist supports and
features development and self-realization, while keeps up those clients have a natural
limit with respect to dependable self-direction.
28. Causes for formative postponements are various. They are sorted as hereditary impacts
acquired from organic guardians and natural impacts.
29. Professional boundaries are crucial in social care work since we are working at a
profound level with the helpless individuals. This implies that we have a duty for them to
get things done to the best of our capacity and to guarantee that our assistance and
support does not harm or disappoint them. Working with troublesome issues can likewise
be exceptionally distressing and depleting work, and expert limits help us to oversee
ourselves and our feelings.
30. Erikson's (1959) hypothesis of psychosocial improvement has eight particular stages,
taking in five phases up to the age of 18 years and three further towards adulthood. The
stages are:
 Trust vs misrtrust
 Autonomy ve shame
 Initiative vs guilt

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 Industry vs inferiority
 Generativity vs stagnation
 Ego integrity vs despair
31. Piaget's (1936) hypothesis of cognitive development clarifies how a youngster develops a
mental model of the world. He couldn't help contradicting the possibility that knowledge
was a settled characteristic, and viewed subjective advancement as a procedure which
happens because of organic development and association with nature.
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33. For documentation of the information about Robert I will consult with his father, his
mother and his doctor, because his parents were the persons with whom Robert is too
much close. Also the doctor who can tell about his physical conditions.
34. Two stakeholders whom I may consult in any actual or potential problems in relation to
delivering community services to Robert are the community centre workers and the doctors who
are treating Robert.
35. For accessing that the services that are provided to Robert is appropriate or not, firstly I
will see the mental health condition of Robert and then I will see that the care offered to
Robert is appropriate or not.
36. Robert displays anger outbursts, which he often directs at objects, i.e. kicking walls, He
tends to isolate himself from group activities, and often rocks his head, grinning and making
gurgling sounds whilst listening to music.
37. Other than unexplained bruises & scratches & behaviours of concern Robert is facing
some more issues those are he is not getting proper care as his parents have become old
and not getting proper care as he didn’t want to interact with the community care
members..

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38. Two other networking sources upon which I can rely upon for supporting and assisting
Robert are KidsHealth.org and PubMed health. KidsHealth provides simple explanations
about Down syndrome that is easy for people of all ages to understand. PubMed Health
gives data to purchasers and clinicians on anticipation and treatment of sicknesses and
conditions. PubMed gives essential information of Down syndrome including
clarifications on the circumstances and end results of Down Syndrome, the Symptoms
and treatment of Down Syndrome.
39. Issues with down syndrome patient that would require documentation and reporting are:
 Sleep issues - Obstructive rest apnea is a typical issue for individuals with Down
disorder. This is a rest issue that can influence a youngster's conduct and capacity
to focus. It can likewise influence the heart.
 Behavior and emotional wellness - Some adolescent with Down disorder can have
conduct or psychological well-being issues that influence how they play and
function at home, at school, or in the group.
 Neck precariousness - Bones in the neck or spine can be shaky in a few people
with Down disorder. There are quite often obvious signs when there are issues.
Day by day physical movement is essential to your kid and ought not be
constrained by additional stresses.
 Thyroid - The thyroid organ is typically ordinary in babies with Down disorder. It
can quit working ordinarily for half of individuals with Down disorder by
adulthood.
40. Interpersonal Skills are the most important skills you need to lead other people
successfully. The most successive practices inside this class of abilities included

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"Collaborates with another kid", "Connects with protests" and "Plays together with a
similar sort of question". Kids with DS oftentimes exhibited the first two practices in the
two conditions. Verbal and non-verbal correspondence, that is, with another individual
and cooperation with objects, is a fundamental component of social improvement; what's
more, the capacity to show them in a rational and correlative way is basic for a socially
competent execution.
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