Unit 12: Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Health and Social care

Unit 12: Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Health and Social care Unit 12: Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Health and Social care: Unit 12: Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Handed out: 29thApril Handed in: 1 st Case study 1. Rebecca Brown (Child Study) Rebecca Brow is 8 years old and is a wheelchair user, following a road traffic accident when she was five years old. Rebecca requires one to one personal care due to her physical disabilities, as she sustained a fractured spine in the accident, meaning that she has no movement below her cervical spine. Rebecca attends a school for children with additional needs, where she has a designated teaching assistant and also a carer who provides her with personal care during the school day. Rebecca lives with her parents Sue and David and her older sibling Michael who is 12 years of age. The family live in an upstairs apartment provided by a housing association, which is small and not ‘wheelchair friendly’. Sue has a part time job at a local day nursery but has to stay at home during the school holidays, in order to care for Rebecca and Michael, reducing the family income. David works full-time at a local factory, working long hours for a low wage. The neighbourhood where the Brown family live are not tolerant of Rebecca’s ‘difference’, and t