Learning disabilities
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Kids' Health - Topics - Learning disabilities
Some kids try really hard to learn and they don't seem to make any progress
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Dyslexia - Brain Foundation
Dyslexia Description Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects approximately 10 per cent of the population
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Dyslexia in children and teenagers | Raising Children Network
Dyslexia is a learning disability. Children with dyslexia have trouble with reading. If your child has dyslexia, support can help him achieve and succeed.
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Sugar
Sugar in food and drink can start the tooth decay process. Tooth decay is caused when bacteria in the mouth combine with the sugars and starches in food to produce acid.
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Reversible Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (RIMA) Antidepressants - BluePages
Find out about the types of RIMA antidepressants, how they work, side effects and common dosages.
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Play & learning: children with disability | Raising Children Network
Need info on play and learning for children with disability? Heres everything you need to know about school, behaviour, skills, play and friendships.
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Intellectual disability | Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
What is intellectual disability? A child with an intellectual disability learns and develops more slowly than other children
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Disability rights
Disabled children have the same rights to education and other services as other kids. Learn more about disability rights and where to seek assistance.
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Children with disability and learning | Raising Children Network
Everyday play and communication can help your child with disability learn new things. You can spark your childs learning by tuning into her interests.
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All About Sex | Family Planning NSW
All About Sex is a series of fact sheets for people with intellectual disability and the people who support them. The fact sheets are easy to read and include illustrations to help people with intellectual disability learn about sexuality and relationships.
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Prescribing psychotropic drugs to adults with an intellectual disability | Issue 4 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Mental illness is common in people with intellectual disability. They may also have physical health problems which can affect their mental state.
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Stroke Care Management: Alien Hand Syndrome
A published Monash University study found that 70% of nurses surveyed reported being physically assaulted in the workplace. The challenge for nurses is that they are caring for patients who may be aggressive due to an acute or untreated medical condition such as dementia, delirium or brain injury.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome & Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Drinking alcohol prior to conception and during pregnancy can have significant adverse outcomes for the fetus. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) are known to be associated with persistent physical and neurodevelopmental abnormalities (Vaux et al. 2016).
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome & Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Drinking alcohol prior to conception and during pregnancy can have significant adverse outcomes for the fetus. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) are known to be associated with persistent physical and neurodevelopmental abnormalities (Vaux et al. 2016).
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Living With a Stoma and its Psychological Impacts | Ausmed
However, does this ease of conversation change if your normal bowel movement isnt the same as everyone elses? How would you feel if you had an artificial opening into your intestine where faecal elimination occurs, otherwise known as a stoma?
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Is Walking Speed Really the 6th Vital Sign? The Walking Speed Test
Every time we turn a corner or pass over a threshold, or have a conversation about the grandkids, Roberts steps falter and die. He doesnt trip. He doesnt freeze. He doesnt wobble his centre of mass outside his base of support.
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Is Walking Speed Really the 6th Vital Sign? The Walking Speed Test
Every time we turn a corner or pass over a threshold, or have a conversation about the grandkids, Roberts steps falter and die. He doesnt trip. He doesnt freeze. He doesnt wobble his centre of mass outside his base of support.
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Living With a Stoma and its Psychological Impacts | Ausmed
However, does this ease of conversation change if your normal bowel movement isnt the same as everyone elses? How would you feel if you had an artificial opening into your intestine where faecal elimination occurs, otherwise known as a stoma?
Read more on Ausmed Education website
The Pelvic Floor - What is it and Why Should I Exercise it?
According to The Continence Foundation of Australia, more than 4.8 million Australians experience bladder or bowel control problems (2017). In 2010, the cost of incontinence to Australias economy was approximately $46.9 billion or $9,014 per patient.
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Genetic Testing in the Consumer's Hands - The Genomics Revolution
Since the last decade, extraordinary advances in DNA sequencing technology, increasing its speed and precision, and a significant reduction in cost, has opened the floodgates for direct-to-consumer personal DNA testing from the comfort of the home.
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