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Daughters of charity, what type of people do they help?

  • 19-09-2010 9:02pm
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    Website says people with intellectual disabilities, does anyone have any idea as to what this would include?...ADHD? Downs Syndrome? hardly dyslexia?. Any idea as to what their literacy lessons would involve?.
    Danke schoen
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    Services are provided for children and adults, male and female, with a moderate, severe or profound intellectual disability

    That's from their website just now.

    This would include people with disabilities such as Down Syndrome and Autism (remember both have a very broad spectrum), people with syndromes like Fragile X, Angelmans, other congentital disorders, and also many that don't have names but may have complex sub types. I imagine you will also work with people with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities, as well as people with visual impairment, sensory impairment and those who are deaf or have epilepsy.

    Handy site: http://www.pwdi.ie/useful_links/index.htm

    There are tonnes of books and websites that offer info.
    ADHD would be found in combination with another disabiity, and dyslexia would be rare as it is a mild to moderate learning disability.


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