The familisation study is essential as it shall help us in situations do arise in schools where we suddenly find ourselves facing the problems of child development .There is need to understand and deal with such problems.
The main purpose of having knowledge of handicapped children is that it exposed us to early stages of learning and effective methods of teaching, even in normal children.The provision of learning opportunities through use of some methods of teaching in classroom situation help our learners as teachers to learn effectively. There is evidence that all pupils can enjoy learning if situations are carefully planned and if different professional skills like teaching methods,social perspectives and cognitive development are properly linked and organised in such a way that it create a hormony stimulating learning situation.
Teachers are influential people in the communities where the children live. Many members listen to teachers' good advice. Therefore teachers can also teach the community on how to cope with some of the problems arising from mental ,physical or social retardation.
Children who have Fits: may have fits only once or may have fits on more occasions.
Medicine is very important if fits happen more often as it can reduce number of fits or stop them altogether.If the child given the appropriate medicine can do well.
In some cultural beliefs like the shona people in Zimbabwe they believe that other people can contact and attacked by fits ,if they assist a person suffering from fits. Because of this cultural in many societies people left a number of children with fits to cruelly struggle ,instead of helping them and prevent them from being injured. According to the scientific evidence of fits ,cannot be spread from one person to another. The main role of the teacher is to convince the other children and community members to understand that fits is not an infectious disease and it is nice to help our friends ,siblings or others without fear of being contact the disease.
Children who suffer from fits should be avoided to from being severely injured through:
Prohibt children with fit problem to go on bathing in the river or deep bath pools to avoid being drowned if attacked by fit during bathing.These children should be given special care when dealing with fire.
Fits attacked children should not allowed to climb trees and ladders ,since they may get injured when attacked by this disability whilst on top of ladder or tree and fall dismally back to the ground . It is the duty of the teachers to teach other children to recognise and understand fit so that they know how to look after the friends during fit.
TYPES OF FITS: Minor fit is not serious where the child looks as if is staring without blinking the eyes.The most serious fists is so bad ,that the child falls to the ground and it can suddenly happens with little or no warning at all. The child screams and make very strange cry. At first the body becomes stiff and then gradually becomes loose, whilst arms and legs make unusual movements. Most frequently froth and bubbles of saliva may appear at the mouth. Sometimes the child may bit the tongue ,the saliva may be coloured red with blood. Then this frightens many on lookers ,but they should not be afraid as it is very natural.A fit may last for few seconds or some minutes. The victim is not in pain and the life is not in danger either ,for as long as is not near fire, water or falling in front of oncoming vehicle.
Helander et al (1980:13)say some children may have fits if they show the following signs before a fit:
staring or daydreaming
unusual repeated movements of face or head
head rolls around loosely
eyes roll upwards
purposeless sounds and body movements being made.
In the case that we noticed such children who show any of these signs we can train them to lie down immediately in safe place . These children will not get injured when they finally gets the fit.
During a fit we should not:
try to stop any unusual movements.
give the child anything to eat or drink.
apply anything on the skin to cool or stimulate him/her.
give any medicines or herbs, these things don't help any more at this moment.
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