Does the term age appropriate apply to the developmentally disabled?
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LMAO... "age appropriate" is a No Child Left Behind buzzword that means big headaches for people trying to provide activities to developmentally delayed students that are appropriate to the student's needs, and a great deal of frustration, stress, and mental understimulation for the students/clients if organizations comply with it.\n\nIn other words, we're supposed to bore them into growth, rather than stimulating their minds (if something is too difficult or advanced for your current level of skill/interest, it is boring).\n\nWhen I work with a 4th grader with a mental age of 0 to 12 months, I'm not supposed to work on infant and toddler toys, games, and activities with her. According to NCLB, I'm supposed to give her, ahem, simplified 4th grade curriculum. Even though research shows that maintaining stimulation and activities at and a single step above their developmental age is what fosters their interest and growth. \n\nSo, if you are working with developmentally delayed adults between the ages of 18 and 70, and you are supposed to provide them with things that a "normal" 18 to 70 year old would like, rather than what really is at their level of need and growth.  Legally, your boss is right. Ethically, you are right.\n\nAs service professionals, we follow a code of ethics. That code is a committment to the student/client, not to a bunch of idiots in Washington D.C. You have to decide...do you want to deal with screaming mental 5 year olds who can't have their toys (since your boss is adhering to the law) to get your paycheck, or do you want to find a more, ahem, ethical employer?
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it depends on how mature the child is. of course there are laws that have required age limits on things like that.
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Age is generally not considered a suspect classification under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.  The Supreme Court has only occasionally suggested that it should be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than rational basis.  If a court is able to conceive some sort of rational basis for the age classification, and the means chosen bear any rational relationship to the end, the age classification is constitutional.\n\nHere, the government could assert that 65 is the standard age of retirement, and the SSA benefits are given approximately at the age of retirement.  A court would find that scheme constitutional.\n\nThough the classification scheme may have a "disparate impact" on a particular racial group, the "disparate impact" claim for race can only succeed if the primary, dominating, intentional, or motivating purpose of the legislation was race-based, in which case the legislation will be examined under strict scrutiny (held so in a couple of casses, Washington v. Davis, and Arlington Heights).  A court is unlikely to find that the age classification had a racial purpose as its motivating purpose, so the age classification would be upheld.
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Sure. It is the period between birth and death.
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I think it all starts earlier than one suspects. I am appalled at the way in which children use the term "spastic" as an insult.  What are they learning at home to be so insensitive?  It doesn't get better. I was once in a position where I needed to recruit a typist and I suggested to Human Resources that perhaps this was a job which might be made available to a disabled person who might otherwise find it hard to gain employment.  I encountered bafflement.  "Any particular disability?" I was asked.  I have a son who has been disabled since the age of twelve.  He is hoping for a job worthy of his very considerable intellectual skills, but he keeps his disability well concealed when job hunting.  He has seen too much of people's attitudes. In many ways, we still live in the jungle.
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YOur question requires a much more complex answer than can be given in this format.  \n\nIf you check the links I've attached they will give you detailed information on language, speech and communicaton development beginning at six months of age.\n\nI hope this information is helpful to you.
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World Wide ages of consent is listed in the below URL.
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What's wrong with games and toys intended for younger children, say at approximately the disabled adult's mental age?
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While the Jewish tradition holds that the age of accountability is 13, in Christian tradition, there is no "set" age. What is meant by the age of accountability is the age at which a person is able to be aware of the difference between right and wrong, and make a decision. this age may vary from person to person (and in the case of someone with a severe mental disability may possibly never even be reached).\nIsiah chapter 8 seems to make a reference to the age of accountability, in regards to a sign, but no exact age is given, rather, it is a statement of the boy's cognitave awareness.\nThe term "age of accountability" stems from the age at which God holds us accountable for our sin. - that is why a Just and holy God is the only one who knows exactly what age it is for each individual.
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There is no particular age. The law says, "The court first shall determine the reasoning ability of the child. If the court determines that the child does not have sufficient reasoning ability to express the child's wishes and concern with respect to the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of the child, it shall not determine the child's wishes and concerns with respect to the allocation. If the court determines that the child has sufficient reasoning ability to express the child's wishes or concerns with respect to the allocation, it then shall determine whether, because of special circumstances, it would not be in the best interest of the child to determine the child's wishes and concerns with respect to the allocation. If the court determines that, because of special circumstances, it would not be in the best interest of the child to determine the child's wishes and concerns with respect to the allocation, it shall not determine the child's wishes and concerns with respect to the allocation and shall enter its written findings of fact and opinion in the journal. If the court determines that it would be in the best interests of the child to determine the child's wishes and concerns with respect to the allocation, it shall proceed to make that determination." \n\nIn short, if they believe the child is able to reason well enough to form a knowledgeable opinion, they will consider it if it is in the child's best interest.
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The perfect age is 39. You are still young and able to do anything. You are smarter and more mature. You have experience. It's a good time.
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I agree, I also believe that everyone should be eligible from 18-42. No exemptions, no deferments. Except for the disabled and that still depends on the degree of disability. Some could still perform supportive roles.
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there is no age, just depends on the person
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No. Chronological age has very little to do with maturity.
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(I just wrote you a book and then erased it) \n         Functionally is mild to moderate retardation. Are you wondering because you want to know what to expect or is there a better way of meeting his needs? How many developmental evaluations has he had? When was the most recent? \n        Developmenyal Delay is a blanket term for young children. That diagnosis  changes to mild , moderate, or severe Mental Retardation at a certain age. Functional means that he can function (severe children need tremendous help every day). Function to what degree, do you wonder?? I can tell you what I know.
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Answer kindof depends on age too.
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For me, it was when a friend of mine offered to push me around an amusement park in a wheelchair, just so I could go. I was 38 years old at the time and had disability come at the age of 34. I have a hard time accepting it. Anyway, I was going to stay home and not go on the field trip with our kids because I knew that I could not walk it. She offered, and then per-swayed me to go. We hung out all day and had a great time. She was totally unselfish in her act of kindness. She enjoyed my friendship enough to inconvenience herself. It meant the world to me.