Friday, February 15, 2013

SURVEY

WHAT DO YOU THING ABUOT SPECIAL NEEDS? THEY HAVE TO BE WITH ALL THE STUDENTS AS THEIR WHERE RESEMBLE OR NOT? GIVE ME YOUR OPINION.

What is Aphasia?

Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person's ability to process language, but does not affect intelligence. Aphasia impairs the ability to speak and understand others, and most people with aphasia experience difficulty reading and writing.

What Causes Aphasia?

The most common cause of aphasia is stroke (about 25-40% of stroke survivors acquire aphasia). It can also result from head injury, brain tumor or other neurological causes.

How Common is Aphasia?

Aphasia affects about one million Americans -or 1 in 250 people- and is more common than Parkinson's Disease, cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. More than 100,000 Americans acquire the disorder each year. However, most people have never heard of it.

Who Acquires Aphasia?

While aphasia is most common among older people, it can occur in people of all ages, races, nationalities and gender.
Can a Person Have Aphasia Without Having a Physical Disability?

Yes, but many people with aphasia also have weakness or paralysis of their right leg and right arm. When a person acquires aphasia it is usually due to damage on the left side of the brain, which controls movements on the right side of the body.

Dyslexia

The World Federation of Neurology defines dyslexia as "a disorder manifested by difficulty in learning to read despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence and sociocultural opportunity".
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke gives the following definition for dyslexia:
"Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read. These individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence. Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with spelling, phonological processing (the manipulation of sounds), and/or rapid visual-verbal responding. In adults, dyslexia usually occurs after a brain injury or in the context of dementia. It can also be inherited in some families and so on, and recent studies have identified a number of genes that may predispose an individual to developing dyslexia."
Other published definitions are purely descriptive or embody causal theories. Varying definitions are used for dyslexia from researchers and organizations around the world; it appears that this disorder encompasses a number of reading skills, deficits and difficulties with a number of causes rather than a single condition.

Technophiles vs Technophobes

Technophiles and technophobes disagree on the relationship between real world and virtual world in the XXI century as tore Byzantium in the eighth century, who fought iconodules iconoclasts and the relationship between the divine world and its visual representations.

Technophiles think technology ultimately decisive: on it, will be modeled attitudes and institutions. It is a liberating force necessarily: the old limitations we imposed our physical, mental or social will be exceeded.
To his supporters, the technique extend the capabilities of our senses and our minds, freed of the need. To the tune of "Tomorrow we can ..." Tomorrow we can communicate faster, instant access to the object of his desire to explore all the archives, escape all censure, gather all the brains, to dispense with all the burdens of the material. This project takes shape in an information society, and libertarian technician at a time. Facing them, think in terms of catastrophic loss: loss of humanity in favor of instrumental reason, loss of critical distance for the benefit of the fascination, loss of identity in a world of virtuality, loss of reality replaced by the show loss of freedom subject to the logical techniques, loss of writing defeated by the screen ...

The technophile certain to be in the direction of history, generally ignores the objections, which he attributes to ignorance, or an archaic mentality. Overflowing with good will teaching, it does not fail to point out to his opponent that he is at liberty to speak or even to create virtual communities of technophobes cyber-complainers. He argues that in there is room for anyone who wants to open up the universal and for anyone who wants to confine themselves within the borders of his clan, the cyber welcome all including its critical discourse He strongly believes that any cohabitation with all the movement and expansion will continue. The rejection of new technologies as a matter of taste or culture, a relatively insignificant trend and sentenced to long-term stiffening or crisis accommodation. The utopian, inhabited by a spirit willing messianic attempts to share the enthusiasm he felt for any new network growth or announcement of a technological innovation. He therefore saw little danger in the opposition as he feels in a position covered by the sense of history.

The catastrophic, he, thinks in terms of struggle and imagine resisting the system. He denounces an opposing ideology which he fights inauthenticity. For, if he fears the loss of our independence or our abilities, attributes the catastrophic in a large part of responsibility in opposing discourse. He often addressed as a language of power, designed to conceal the power relations and special interest as a universal project.


Technophobia

This word refers to a recent fear of technology (taken here not in the sense of "study techniques" but all these techniques, in particular ICT). Technophobia is often used trivially to mock those who are unable to use their computer, or develop irrational fears about the Internet. In fact there are several degrees in this "aversion" .. One is distinguished by: the inability or choice not to use ICT in their life. At this point, it is a trait or behavior reflecting the subjectivity of an individual who surfs the Internet or not, or prefer to write by hand ...

A second form of technophobia is a general assessment of the usefulness of ICT, especially Internet in particular; Some, for example, emphasize the dangers of the Internet - risk of fraud, proliferation of pornography or extremist speech, ability to chain failures, espionage of privacy ... or are technophobes - wrongly or rightly - those who are skeptical of all the wonders qu'espèrent the "technophiles" confident about the future of the company's Information: productivity gains, new economy, availability of information, emergence of e-democracy in the "global village", new possibilities of expression and culture. This techno-there is some assessment of benefit or harm of future developments in technology and their social, political ... The difference between "for" and "against" focuses on the likelihood of events in which both are essentially the same trial.

Would then define a technophobia "in principle": that which rejects the very notion of a progression of techniques. Would meet this definition the attitude of some environmentalists who condemn greed as a manifestation of unnecessary any action of man to increase his powers.

Others denounce in new technology, not an increase in our capacity but an enslavement or alienation. They attack the character of the inauthentic world of networks: false equality, false democracy, false knowledge, false report with the other short, false promises and real alienation. Manifested by nostalgia for what they believe to lose: the common experience of life and its rhythms, the territory that allowed everyone to be between near and far, that of shared memory, that of the identity in the age of cybernetic avatars, virtual communities and changing lifestyle choices ...

In some respects, the quarrel between technophiles and technophobes remember quarrels older: for or against the image in the monotheistic religions, for or against the theater in the eighteenth century (the quarrel of the show), for or against the mass media in the twentieth ...

 


Windows 7: The Top 10 Hidden Features

Hotkey a Window between Monitors

Want an easy and mouse-free way to move windows around a display or, better yet, between multiple monitors? When you press the Windows key + the left or right arrow key, the active window will move from its original position and anchor itself to the edge of the screen in the direction of the arrow, and it will do so across every monitor you have. Similarly, if you press Windows + SHIFT + left or right arrow, the active window will jump over to the same position on the adjacent monitor (so if you only have two monitors, it doesn't matter which arrow key you use).

Wipe Free Disk Space08

It's no secret (or at least, it shouldn't be) that when you delete files or folders in Windows, they're not actually erased—the space they took up is simply marked as "available for use," which allows the files to be recoverable (with the right software) until they're overwritten with new data.

There is a utility built-into Windows (even XP Pro and Vista) that will overwrite all the free space on a hard drive, insuring any files you've deleted stay dead. Launch a command prompt and type
cipher /w:X where X is the letter of the drive or partition you want to wipe. Be patient—the process can take a long time if you have a lot of free space.

Enhanced Calculator

Windows' built-in calculator hasn't really changed much over the years, but Windows 7's calculator has a few extra tricks up its sleeve, which you'll find under the View menu. It can do myriad kinds of unit conversion (temperature, weight, area, and eight others), interesting date calculations, and even has worksheets to calculate a mortgage payment or a car's fuel mileage. It maintains a history of your previous calculations as long as the program is open.

God Mode

It may be hyperbolically named, but Windows 7's God Mode is indeed omnipresent. It conveniently puts hundreds of settings from all around the operating system all in one place.

To turn on God Mode, create a new folder on your desktop--or anywhere you'd like--and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Don't include the final period. The resulting folder will contain 270 items, representing virtually every configurable option in Windows 7.

Pin Folders to the Taskbar

You already know that you can right-click your favorite programs and pin them to the Windows 7 Taskbar for easy access. Right? Although there's no such option for folders, there is another way to keep them close at hand on the Taskbar. Right-click any folder, drag it to an empty space on the Taskbar (or to the Windows Explorer button), and let go when "Pin to Windows Explorer" appears. Now when you right-click the Windows Explorer button, your folders will be accessible via the Jump List.