PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Umbilical Cord, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Family Therapy
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Early stimulation can affect the development of language, intelligence, personality, and self-worth. In a modern state, funds are not limited, so we have to spend money on issues smartly and appropriately. Network of infant development programs : they could belong to regions, cities and areas. They tend not be provincial, they are more of the lower level of government: belong to municipalities, not paid the same way as schools, a lot of grants and fund raising, a lot of financial challenges. Purpose: to server infants who are at risk for developmental delay and their families. Intellectual disabilities specifically: down syndrome, autism : not looking for a cure. Including children who are late walking, late forming emotional attributes with their parents, children with comprehension of language that is late. You have the certainty about their condition, you have the ability to help with the trajectory over the years. This is not a genetic disorder: ex.
