Should we treat baldness in teenages?
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on May 17, 2012
While male-pattern baldness primarily occurs in adult men, there are instances when teenage boys can experience the disorder. It can be highly traumatic for a teenager to begin losing his hair. They can be obsessively focused on their appearance to begin with and going bald can add to this already stressful situation. They will want to seek immediate medical assistance to stop the condition from worsening.
When to be Concerned
Hair loss is not uncommon. In fact, everyone loses up to 100 head hairs every day. This is a natural process that involves old hair falling out to make room for new hair. It is not a cause for alarm. But if you are losing more than that or your hair seems to be coming out in clumps, you need to see a doctor to make sure there is nothing seriously wrong. Underlying medical conditions can cause hair loss in teenage boys.
Causes of Hair Loss in Teenagers
Teenage boys can experience hair loss for a variety of reasons. A common culprit is scalp ringworm which is a contagious infection that can cause permanent hair loss. Certain hairstyles or styling routines such as braiding or dyeing the hair can also result in hair loss in teenagers. The most challenging to treat is male-pattern baldness which has been known to develop in teenage boys by age 15.
Types of Hair Loss Treatment
The cause of the hair loss determines the appropriate treatment regimen. The most popular treatment for male-pattern baldness is with oral medications known as 5-alpha reductase inhibitors. These drugs effectively stop the production of a particular hormone that interferes with hair growth. Results range from stopping hair loss to actual hair regrowth. There are many factors that determine the effectiveness of a treatment on a particular patient.
Seeking Treatment with propecia
Looks are important to all teenagers. Because of the impact on their self-esteem, teenagers are more likely to seek medical attention for hair loss sooner than their adult counterparts. Hair loss concealers that cover the balding area may be a temporary option until teenagers are old enough for medical treatment. And a person should be at least 18 years old to be treated with propecia.
This article looks at how male-pattern baldness can impact teenagers who seek medical assistance but cannot be prescribed until they are eighteen. Fortunately, there are steps they can take to address their balding disorder.
Handling Inclusion Students
A good inclusion teacher will do his/her best to motivate his or her students, especially the ones who are struggling or who refuse to do the work regularly. Sometimes, a non-disabled teen will reject the help, it has happened to me, believing erroneously that I am not their teacher or that it would place them in the same category as the special education classmates. Yes, there is a certain stigma attached to the label “inclusion student”; the perception is probably due to the lack of comprehension by both regular students and classroom teachers. The question I am asked most often is “What exactly does Learning Disability mean?” I try to clarify the best way possible to my teaching colleagues that these students do not perceive stimuli normally, even though their intelligence level is average-normal. It would take a trained psychologist to give all the details, I am not, but the tool we use to detect such learning disability (LD) is a series of tests which show severe discrepancies between the potential and the actual academic performance. For example, if a child’s verbal ability is calculated at 100 and he/she performs at 85, we call that a learning disability in Reading Comprehension.
It is true however that a good proportion of students labeled special education suffer from a lower I.Q. than other children; they may be ranked as average intelligence, but there is a big difference between an IQ of 80, low average, and one of 120, high average. The performance of the high average student, while still inadequate as expected by his level of intelligence, is still much better than the other student’s. I know that some colleagues refuse to accept the IQ scale as a reliable indicator of learning capability. They are right inasmuch many factors intervene in the human brain that may affect performance such as emotional aspects. But if we assume that the two types of students, one with a low average and the other with a high average, are equal in effort and motivation, it will become clear in the classroom that one will do much better than the other other. Read the rest of this entry »
Checklist for Different Methods of Teaching Grammar
Posted by admin in Teaching Methods on March 16, 2012
How do you know if your are teaching grammatical in the most effective way possible? The debate of how to teach grammar in the most effective way has great implications for second and foreign language learning in addition to grammatical concepts learned in the mainstream classroom.
The main consideration to keep in mind when teaching grammar is do you want to teach a grammatical structure or concept inductively? This means students are given the context and then are presented with the grammar rules afterwards. Some learners learn better this way while others need the rule in order to understand the rationale for the new grammatical structure.
Teaching Grammar Inductively
Teaching grammar inductively has favorable implications for communciative competence, which involves a selection of the right grammatical terms to that of the appropriate setting. Learners need to also know how to use language in context:
when, where and to whom to use these grammatically correct sentences. An example could be:
how to begin a conversation
how to address people in different situations
how to respond to different speech acts involving requests, invitations, compliments, and apologies.
Whether you are using the inductive or deductive method to introduce a new grammar point, there are several things to consider when planning a grammar lesson. Take a look at the checklist below and evaluate to what degree do you take the following areas into consideration? Read the rest of this entry »