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Unit 12: Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Health and Social care: Unit 12: Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Handed out: 29th April 2020 Handed in: 1st June 2020 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’. Learning Aim A: Examine reasons why individuals may experience additional Needs A1 Diagnosing or determining additional needs A.P1 Explain diagnostic procedures to determine additional needs for one child and one adult with different additional needs. • What are the diagnostic procedures, tools and standards used to diagnose a disability example Downs Syndrome and diabetes. (P1) • What professional background, qualifications and experience required of those undertaking the diagnosis and assessment.