Psychology 3440F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Echolalia, Joint Attention, Social Cognition
11 Dec 2015
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Structuring of the facial characteristics (mouth, nose, eye shape) facial dismorphology. Excellent language skills much higher than what you would predict on the basis of their assessment of their mental age. Profound cognitive delay mental age is half of chronological age. Microdeletion on chromosome 7 genetic anomaly due to the removal of . Distinct physical characteristics elfin face characteristic (mouth and eye shape characteristic) Other physical anomalies abnormal vascular tissue svas (thickening of vascular in the heart), calcium levels are increased, smaller head circumference (based on size) and muscles are typically stif. Distinct emotional characteristics bright sunny personality, anxiety. Distinct perceptual abilities hypersensitive to sounds, and some reports of musicality. Unique cognitive profile (diagnostic criteria) : profound cognitive delay. Trog test sentence and child picks one of the 4 images that best describes the sentence: word knowledge. Peabody picture test word and child picks one of the 4 pictures that best describes the word: narrative skills.
