Assignment On Learning Disability

Running Head: CHILDREN MANAGEMENT WITH LEARNING DISABILITY AND
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
CHILDREN MANAGEMENT WITH LEARNING DISABILITY AND AUTISM SPECTRUM
DISORDER
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SPECTRUM DISORDER
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The article focuses on the improvement procedures and skills adopted by the health care
management and family members of management of children who faces learning disability and
autism spectrum disorder when they get admitted in a hospital.
I have selected this article for my assignment as it focuses on the needs of the children
suffering from learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. In UK, around 286,000
children suffer from learning disability (NIHR Centre, 2018). This has an adverse effect on their
lives the common being comprehension and communication. There is an increase in the
incidences of autism spectrum disorders among children. It has become a necessity for providing
education for health care professionals and hospital management methods. It is important to
discuss the management strategies that would help the children with autism spectrum disorder in
caring areas.
The target audience are the hospital doctors, nurses, staffs and the family members who
need to provide primary speech, language, behavioral and educational interventions. Since these
children are specially abled, I think they require utmost care and attention from the surroundings
so that they does not feel alienated and develop any other hospital related ailments like
depression and frustration.
The most interesting part that I found in this study was the clinical management
procedure. The management of learning disability and autism spectrum disorder requires a
multidisciplinary approach towards the patients and identify behaviors that would interfere with
the learning ability of that individual and make them get the best benefit out of those
interventions (Kennedy et al. 2016). The interventions needs to be continuously updated so that
the children can get the best out of it. There are certain strategies that some hospital teams have
established to approach this problem and minimize the distress faced by these children in their

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SPECTRUM DISORDER
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most critical and traumatic situation of hospital admission. Some strategies like social stories,
augmentative and alternative communication systems, and classroom education is of utmost
importance. Some hospitals have also started to involve caregivers who values the importance of
listening to the patients, their reaction in diverse situations, noting the things that gives them
luxury or distress (Morgan 2016).
I have learnt that we should not give up in any distressed situation. There are a number of
ways to address any type of problem. There are some hospitals which have made good
advancement in their methods and policies that support autistic children with learning
disabilities. Macclesfield General Hospital in UK has received The National Autistic Society’s
Autism Accreditation Award as it has developed autism knowledge and understanding for the
practice within the hospital (Povey 2016). Hospitals also employ acute liaison nurses as well as
consultant nurses to help and support the children with learning disabilities.
Other professionals including writers, practitioners, policy makers, politicians, fellow
students might have understood the importance of interventions and its implementation on the
children with learning disabilities and autism (Muskat et al. 2016). They describe it with their
own perceptions. The writers describe it as intervention is required only in the education system
of the healthcare professionals who would be able to implement the new education practices on
the children. This method is critiqued by the practitioners as they follow intensive interventions
including behavioral, educational, psychological components which is very effective for the
children’s health (emedicine.medscape, 2018). The implementation of the treatments should
begin early during infant period to gain a favorable outcome in the upcoming years. The
politicians can implement new laws regarding regular screening of the infants and children for
any type of symptoms and signs for detection of autism syndrome and learning disability. This

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would allow early identification and treatment of the disease which would reduce the number of
children suffering from learning disability and autism related syndrome.
It is important to my subject area as I want to do research in this area. I want to develop
new schemes and interventions for those little children who are suffering from such adverse
situations. I want to develop certain medications which would help in developing the condition
for those children with least side effects (Gadow 2018). I would like to include an additional
procedure of detection of autism disorders among the pregnant mothers during ultrasound
procedures. Screening or PCR methods can help to detect these problems faster and would allow
early identification and treatment of the disease.
Improvement in the management of the children with learning disability and autism
disorder is of utmost crucial requirement for the mental health of the children when they are
admitted in a hospital (Povey 2016). The children have variable levels of verbal and intellectual
abilities and may have distinct requirements which are very unique and specific to that particular
child. They may find the hospital surrounding intimidating and upsetting. The medical staffs and
the nurses need to adapt and change their approach towards these children with learning
disability and autism related disorder (Dern and Sappok 2016). Children with disabilities find it
uncomfortable in a health care center as the setting might be frightening as they would not be
able to cope up with the change in their daily routine and would not be able to figure out and get
accustomed to their surroundings. This would provoke anxiety within them (Da Paz and
Wallander 2017). This might create withdrawal symptoms or behavioral outbursts making the
clinical demographic procedure challenging. Certain symptoms like hand flapping or repetitive
body movements can develop due to anxiety in children. The hospital professionals can help to
decrease this symptoms by ignoring undesirable behavior, adapting cooperative behavior,