Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Looking at disability, mental health and other problems awareness

 Many problems such as disability, mental health, and other problems even can affect the way we learn, our everyday lives, how we cope,  even how we don't cope, how we are with others around us, etc. Not forgetting how we think, feel, behave, react, even interact with life.  

Mental illness is a mental health disorder affecting behavior and mood. Disability can affect mental health in the quality of peoples' lives and how they cope. According to google people with disabilities are affected by mental health more so than other people. Mental health is an emotional and Psychological state the mind-affecting our health well-being and how we interact with others.  Mental health and mental illness are not the same but they can lead to mental and physical illness. 

What seems to be the most common mental health problems is Depression, General Anxiety, a Panic disorder which is a form of Anxiety, (OCD), Obsessive-compulsive disorder. .. ( PTSD)  Post-traumatic stress disorder.

According to google Bipolar causes people to overreact  1 Hearing harsh words that would be painful to anyone, you may well respond with extreme anger or dark depression. Even a sad movie can make a person with bipolar disorder overreact.

Such problems as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and Processing Deficits make it hard for people to learn and live daily lives without the right empowerment and support. 

As I have made you aware in past posts that  Dyslexia is a reading, writing, and spelling, well some sights for what I see, it as a learning disability, and others see it as a learning difficulty. Just to say people who face dyslexia can read, write and spell but they face difficulties in doing so along the way. Most it might be getting words, letters, etc in the wrong places, etc, which even so in exams are see as mistakes and sadly can lose them marks if something is not completely correct, even though certain things are involved but if not in the right order or places, it can make a difference. Okay, people cannot be supported exams other than maybe someone reading the question to them but in studying they can. However from my experience in some colleges etc, it has been possible for me to have papers, a bit accessible, in my case normally yellow paper A4 and large print. 

Dyscalculia is a maths learning difficulty or disability, which I think I face myself whereas I have always had problems with maths. It is possibly similar to Dyslexia but a problem with numbers instead of letters and words. However' with Dyslexia it easy to see numbers in the wrong round like seeing 26 as 62 saying if someone is needing to remember a number, maybe either Dyscalculia or Dyslexia if someone faces that. However' with Dyscalculia, there is more to it than that for example if an answer of a sum is more than the fingers on your hand and you may difficult to work out maths in your head and even what to press on a calculator, etc. The Americans have described Dyscalculia as a maths Anxiety as well as a maths learning difficulty. https://www.understood.org/en/learning-thinking-differences/child-learning-disabilities/dyscalculia/what-is-dyscalculia

According to google, Dysgraphia is rather similar to Dyslexia but like Dyscalculia is pretty much linked to Dyspraxia due to motor skill and cooperation problems but doesn't necessarily mean but it may do mean that you can only face it with Dyspraxia. Mostly Dysgraphia is more of a handwriting difficulty or disability, I think I have always faced this too. 

Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder of written expression that impairs writing ability and fine motor skills. It is a learning disability that affects children and adults and interferes with practically all aspects of the writing process, including spelling, legibility, word spacing and sizing, and expression.

symptoms

  • Cramped grip, which may lead to a sore hand.
  • Difficulty spacing things out on paper or within margins (poor spatial planning)
  • Frequent erasing.
  • Inconsistency in letter and word spacing.
  • Poor spelling, including unfinished words or missing words or letters.
  • Unusual wrist, body, or paper position while writing.

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-thinking-differences/child-learning-disabilities/dysgraphia/understanding-dysgraphia


Processing Deficits

Processing disorders, such as auditory processing, visual processing, and sensory processing disorders, are conditions in which the brain has difficulty receiving and responding to information that comes through the senses.

Processing disorder affects learning reading, writing maths, memory, ogainazion, etc.  

Listening and hearing could be an example of trying to listen down an Answer machine and the press struggling to cope with the press because it's problem going too fast for them etc. 

This could be background noise. 

Struggling to follow instructions, directions, etc.http://www.ldonline.org/article/6376











 





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