Children with Developmental Challenges

Children With Developmental Challenges 3(2+1)

Lesson 32 : Organizations Working for the Welfare of the Disabled

Allied Professional Working With the Exceptional Children

1. Pediatrician: is a medical doctor, specialist in child medicine taking care of babies, directly after birth supervising their growth & development.
2. Neurologist: Is a physician who specializes in the treatment of disorders of brain, spinal cord and rest of the nervous system
3. Ophthalmologist: Doctor specializing in the branch of medicine concerning structure, function, & diseases of the eye.
4. Orthopedician: The one who deals with the prevention & correction of diseases & deformities of the joints, spine, muscles & bones.
5. ENT Specialist: Special who deals with the disorder of ear, nose & throat & rectifies them.
6. Genetist: Is specialist in genetic engineering in the phenomenon of heredity and variation. He seeks to understand difference and resemblance.
7. Psychotherapist: Is a person who deals with the systematic & persistent exploration of neurotic patients mental processes by verbal means in order to help him towards better personal & social integration.
8. Speech therapist: Deals with the rectification of speech disorders.
9. Prosthetist: Is the one who makes artificial limbs, artificial dentures & external organs or parts.
10. Audiologist: It’s the one who deals with science of hearing.
11. Physiotherapist: Deals with physical reconditioning of the diseased & injured.
12. Occupational therapist: Who teaches trade & arts as a means for the rehabilitation of patients, physically & mentally handicapped.
13. Psychiatrist: Deals with the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, treatment & prevention of mental illness.
14. Psychologist: Who studies psychology which is the science of human behaviour.
15. Medical Social worker: Is the one who deals with the relationship between social welfare & medicine.
16. Special educator: Is the one who deals with the deviant children.