MENTAL-RETARDATION AIDE

  

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MENTAL-RETARDATION AIDE

Specialty Definition: MENTAL-RETARDATION AIDE

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Occupations

Assists in providing self-care training and therapeutic treatments to residents of mental retardation center: Demonstrates activities such as bathing and dressing to train residents in daily self-care practices. Converses with residents to reinforce positive behaviors and to promote social interaction. Serves meals and eats with residents to act as role model. Accompanies residents on shopping trips and instructs and counsels residents in purchase of personal items. Aids staff in administering therapeutic activities, such as physical exercises, occupational arts and crafts, and recreational games, to residents. Restrains disruptive residents to prevent injury to themselves and others. Observes and documents residents' behaviors, such as speech production, feeding patterns, and toilet training, to facilitate assessment and development of treatment goals. Attends to routine health-care needs of residents under supervision of medical personnel. May give medications as prescribed by physician. May train parents or guardians in care of deinstitutionalized residents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MENTAL-RETARDATION AIDE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 4E 54 41 4C 2D 52 45 54 41 52 44 41 54 49 4F 4E      41 49 44 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001100 00101101 01010010 01000101 01010100 01000001 01010010 01000100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000001 01001001 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#45 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#73 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 004E 0054 0041 004C 002D 0052 0045 0054 0041 0052 0044 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E      0041 0049 0044 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

473948543546155239543552383554434948235433839

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