Tongue Tie, Pediatric Tongue tie is when your child’s tongue is not able to move freely in his or her mouth. A band of tissue called the frenulum runs from the underside of the tongue to the bottom of the mouth. This band should be thin enough and long enough to allow the tongue to move freely in all directions. When this band is too thick or too short, it can prevent the tongue from moving normally. CAUSES It is not known why the tongue develops this way. RISK FACTORS Risk factors include having a family history of tongue tie. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS Symptoms for tongue tie are different for infants and older children. An infant may have: • Problems sucking during nursing or bottle feeding. • Poor weight gain, due to difficulty feeding.
Weight loss may also occur. An older child may have: • Problems learning to speak. • Difficulty being understood while speaking. This may be due to: • Inability to pronounce certain sounds or letters. • Slurred speech. • Large gap between the bottom front teeth. • Limited motion of the tongue. Your child may: • Not be able to move his or her tongue from one side to the other. • Stick his or her tongue out. • Touch the roof of his or her mouth with the tongue. • A small nick or notch at the tip of the tongue. DIAGNOSIS Diagnosis will include a medical history and physical exam. In most cases, the diagnosis will be made based on the symptoms. TREATMENT Many children with tongue tie will not need treatment. However, depending on the severity, other children may require a procedure that makes a small cut in the frenulum (frenulotomy). This allows the tongue to move freely. Your child’s health care provider may also recommend: • Speech therapy. • Feeding therapy. HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS • Keep all follow-up visits as directed by your child’s health care provider. This is important. • Work with a nutritionist, if needed, to evaluate your child's dietary needs. • Keep a log or diary of your child's eating habits. SEEK MEDICAL CARE IF: • Your child loses weight. • Your child will not eat or has difficulty eating. ExitCare® Patient Information ©2012 ExitCare, LLC.
Bell’s palsy is a paralysis or weakness of the muscles on one side of your face. It results from damage to the nerve that controls movement of the muscles in the face, the damage may also affect your sense of taste and how you make tears and saliva. This condition can come on, often overnight and usually gets better on its own within a few weeks. This is not a result of a stroke or transient ischemic attack. This is referred to as a (TIA). Palsy simply means weakness or paralysis,
In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldúa explains the implications of living under the influence of two cultures. She begins with a story of how she was punished by a teacher for correcting the pronunciation of her name. Anzaldúa gives the reader anecdotes about her life in a dual culture society, explaining the trials of accepting her heritage, fighting to find her place in Mexican or American society, and establishing herself as a proud Chicana.
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I as well as many people don’t understand the symbolism of the the hangman’s knot or the history behind its uses. I have always came to understand that it was an offensive knot to others because of the lynchings going on during slavery time period. Even today the hangman’s knot still plays a role in modern hate crime acts; However the hangman’s knot dates back to as early as the 16th century. The brutality portrayed by the knot brings out many feelings among many different people, And with that causes many acts of violence and rage toward others. The hangman’s knot, or also known as noose is a hard subject for many African Americans to talk about or discuss. Because at the time of these crimes the African American race was looked down upon. They were treated like animals and were never given the least bit of respect, they were tortured, beaten, and then hanged. I can agree that if this happened to my ancestors I would be offended by the many things that used to happen, and the symbols that are used in hate crimes today.
Penile adhesions often result from inadequate lysis of natural adhesions prior to circumcision or from migration of the skin from a prominent suprapubic fat pad. “The majority of these adhesions should lyse spontaneously as the penis grows, suprapubic fat recedes, and erections become more frequent and firmer” (2011). Otherwise, lysis of penile adhesions can be performed in the doctor’s office if they don’t lyse naturally on their own. This is accomplished by gently pushing away the adhesions from the glans after administering a topical anesthetic cream such as EMLA.
In 1959, two young African American boys, James Hanover (9) and David “Fuzzy” Simpson (7) were charged with molestation of a young white girl. The case is known as “The Kissing Case”, a case that has been much forgotten and to some even unheard. While there were many issues within the case, the main factor that changed the young boys’ lives forever was the simple fact that they were innocent. Some of the problems in this case are issues that are judicial system still seem unfit to get right in many cases.
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Oral piercings are a growing trend in young adults used to represent self expression and uniqueness. Oral piercings are referred to as piercings that are inside the mouth with the most popular being the tongue. Other types include the lip, uvula, frenum, and cheeks. Oral piercings usually have a quick healing time due to their plentiful blood supply in the oral cavity; however, though piercing seems harmless due to its reversibility as compared to tattoos, there is a big concern to dental and medical professionals due to their risks and complications to health (Jannsen & Cooper, 2008).
Language is more than just a means of communication; it is part of one's culture, self-expression, and identity. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is a chapter from the book ,Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza ,written by Gloria E. Anzaldua. In this chapter, Anzaldua talks about her Chicana life in a period full of immigrant controversies where Latinos living in the United States were struggling to find their national identity and a language to speak freely without feeling any shame and fear from others. She expresses the dilemma she had to face about her own language in which she was often criticized and scolded for her improper Spanish accent. From these experiences she labeled these attacks on languages as “Linguistic Terrorism”. Anzaldúa
Amy Tan is an author who was born in 1952 in Oakland, California. Her parents, who emigrated from China, encouraged her to study in a math or science career but she soon had an interest in English instead. From attending San Jose State University, she got her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She wrote a story called “Mother’s Tongue” which describes the different ways of English forms there is to pursue. Her thesis is a discussion of language and how it can affect her profession in the long run. Her purpose for this story is to show that everyone has their own dialect around certain people. Tan mentions how she learned English and how it changed her. There is a relation between Tan’s writing that has me questioning things because of how I
After a few days, have passed since the newly elected president, Donald J. Trump, was put into office and he has already put out an executive order on the continuation of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This order was a major upset for the Native Americans, for they had just finished protesting it and succeeded when former president Barrack H. Obama had set out an executive order to halt the construction of the pipeline. In the song, Hook in Mouth by Megadeth, the verse “A little man with a big eraser, changing history”, it can relate to what’s going on here as President Trump is the little man with the eraser completely ignoring the history that Sioux Tribe had on their sacred grounds. The Sioux Tribe protest once again for Sacred Stone near the Missouri River in North Dakota, as President Trump signs the executive order to approve the Dakota Pipeline. The natives protest, because it has a possibility to contaminate their drinking water and damage the sacred burial sites
The child is at stage three linguistic speech in oral development (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). They show evidence of this in both their receptive and expressive language meeting the criteria for this stage (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). They show evidence of their receptive language by their ability in being able to understand opposites (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). While they had some issues with the differences between soft and scratchy they were able to demonstrate the differences between big and little several times during the dialogue. They showed evidence of their expressive language by their use of telegraphic speech, expanding vocabulary and in the ability to take in turns of speaking and listening (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). Telegraphic
...e, mouth, face, or whole body; involuntary chewing, sucking, and lip smacking; and jerky movements of the arms, legs, or entire body” (Comer, 2011, p. 379).
A speech and langue delay may become evident to caregivers when a child is not reaching the normal milestones for age appropriateness. Children may not be speaking or understanding what may be considered the average for their age groups. A speech delay is defined that a child’s rate of speech is developed at a slower rate than the norm e...