PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Gifted Education, These Kids, Cortical Blindness
21 Jun 2013
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Ashley-socialization and verbalization, occupational therapy focuses on these things. Special ed taught him or corrected his behavior before he was sent to general ed class. Lower level special ed and exceeded expectations, auto-mechanics and building wooden pieces. Trackers can be used for higher level kids. Pressure fluid pressure, shunt surgically installed relieve pressure, kids in comas for a long time, took 6 weeks at home before child woke up in coma, in seconds walking and talking gone. Very expensive needs hard to predict outcomes, and how far they will go. 30 pound baby everything needed to be taught over again. Aren"t behavioral problems could be in general ed pretty easily. Cortical blindness damage to cortex, may be gradual recovery of visual cortex. Brain injury very hard to know how its going to be. Represents the other end of the spectrum (upper end of spectrum) very top in terms of intelligence.
