Special Deeds for Special Needs: Humans First, Needs Second: OAJBS Publishers

Special Deeds for Special Needs: Humans First, Needs Second by Eric Shapira* in Open Access Journal of Biomedical Science (OAJBS)

For many years, most practitioners considered patients with specific types of “handicaps,” persons with “Special Needs.” Those individuals who suffered from various types of congenital and developmental issues were lumped into this category. Approximately 17% of children today have a developmental disability ranging from mild disabilities such as speech and language impairments to serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism. Over 6 million individuals in the United States have developmental disabilities. 10% of the world population are disabled. This accounts for approximately 650 million people with disabilities (https: www. cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmental disabilities). I can remember back as a dental student my fear of working with this genre of patient, which stemmed from my lack of knowledge about them and their ailments, both as a dental student and as a youngster growing up in a “sheltered “environment. We did not get much experience with disabled patients in dental school back then, need I say more. In a state of desperation, I took it upon myself to get permission to visit a facility outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a dental student, where what we were told were “brain damaged, ‘retarded’, ‘malformed’, and ‘congenital ‘anomalies in persons who were living there and so on.” No one knew what to label.
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