Vocabulary Notes

1. caused by –причиненный

2. disability-нетрудоспособность, инвалидность

3. eradicate -искоренять

4. impaired hearing-ослабленный слух

5. impaired vision-ослабленное зрение

6. medical care –медицинское обслуживание

7. mentally retarded- умственно отсталый

8. polio-полиомиелит

9. receive the care – получать помощь

10. survive-выживать

11. traffic accidents –дорожное происшествие

12. vocational-профессиональный

2. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and phrases

Mentally retarded, seeing and hearing disabilities, mobility-disabled, vocationally handicapped, disabled people, to assess impairments, injury or illness, impaired vision, impaired hearing, to use technical aids, working capacity, health and living conditions, nationwide health check-up, job applicants, to receive the care, medical progress, specific diseases, polio, to eradicate, methods of treatment, injured in traffic accidents, social developments, medical care, handicap, functional disability.

3. Give English equivalents to the following words and phrases

статистика, метод лечения, выживать, получить травму в дорожном происшествии, социальное развитие, существующие данные, нетрудоспособность, ослабленное зрение, искоренять, функциональная беспомощность, умственно отсталый, определять ухудшение, работоспособность, получать уход, социальное развитие, ослабленный слух, использовать технические средства.

4. Match the words with its definitions.

retarded -to tear out by the roots; uproot

impair - medical, surgical or cosmetic care, esp. a systematic course of it

eradicate -the act or power of seeing with the eye; sense of sight

treatment -slowed or delayed in development or progress, esp. because of

mental retardation

vision - to make less good than it usually is or less good than it should be

5. Complete the sentences with the phrases from the text.

1. We also refer to people as being handicapped in particular contexts, such as the … handicapped.

2. Existing data merely indicates the people who have a disability or ….

3. An estimated 70,000 people have … vision.

4. The estimates that are made are based on national statistical studies of people's health and living ….

5. Polio, for example, has now been entirely … in Sweden.

6. Translate the Russian sentences into English

1. Они включают в себя умственно отсталых, людей лишенных зрения и слуха, парализованных, людей с хроническими заболеваниями и людей с многими лишениями.

2. Растущее число людей получивших травмы в дорожных происшествиях напрямую связаны с социальным развитием.

3. В Швеции, например, полностью искоренен полиомиелит.

4. Около 70000 людей утратили зрение, и около 330000 слух.

5. Приведенная оценка основывается на статистические изучение здоровья и жилищных условий людей.

7. Summarize the idea of the text

Unit 13

Child care.

Text 1.

1. Read and translate the text.

CHILDREN

Children are youngsters who are under the legal age of responsibility or emancipation. In most states this age is 18 years. Social workers deal with children having different problems. There are some groups of children who need care and supervision of specialists. These are runaway children, exceptional children, adultified children, stolen children, latchkey children, home alone children, thrown away children and many others.

A runaway child is a minor who has departed the home of his or her parents or legal guardians contrary to their wishes and who intends to remain independent of their control. The federal government maintains a National Runaway Hotline to help these youngsters and possibly reunite them with their parents.

«Exceptional children» is a designation applied to dependent youngsters who, because of unusual mental, physical, or social abilities or limitations, require extraordinary forms of education, social experience, or treatment. These children include mentally retarded youngsters who can benefit from educational training facilities designed to help them reach their potential. Other such children may be those with physical disabilities and deformities, mental disorders, special talents, very high intelligence, or unusual physical abilities.

A youth who, because of family relationship patterns, psychopathology, or socioeconomic circumstances, is compelled to assume roles and responsibilities normally reserved for older people, is called an adultified child. An example is a child who is a primary caregiver for younger siblings as well as meal preparer, housekeeper, and major emotional supporter for a single, working parent.

Stolen children are youths who have been abducted from the legal custodial parent by the other parent, usually after a divorce and loss of customer.

Latchkey child is a youngster who comes home from school to spend part of the day unsupervised because the parents are still at work. All above mentioned groups of children can be considered as clients of social workers.