PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Asperger Syndrome, Dopamine Receptor D4, Dopamine Transporter

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3604
• Professor: Chris Motz

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Note: this is the beginning of the material for the final exam. Intellectual disability, communication disorders, autism spectrum disorder, attention- Formerly (cid:498)mental retardation(cid:499) functioning, in comparison to an individual"s age-, gender-, and socioculturally matched peers. Essential features are deficits in general mental abilities and impairment in everyday adaptive. Intellectual disability: specifiers: mild, moderate, severe, profound is determined by adaptive functioning rather than iq score. Previously included iq scores as part of the assessment for level of disability. Communication disorders: language disorder (previously mixed receptive-expressive language disorder) Persistent difficulties in the acquisition/use of language across modalities (spoken, written, sign), due to deficits in comprehension or production that include the following: Communication disorders: speech sound disorder (previously phonological disorder) make up spoken words. Persistent difficulty with speech sound production that interferes with speech intelligibility. Speech sound production the clear articulation of the phonemes (individual sounds) that.