PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Leprosy, Spinalonga, Frontal Lobe
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Exceptional is one or two standard deviations above/below the mean (below 20 or above 130) In general, learning/educational disabilities will be on the lower end (down syndrome, adhd, etc) Higher end will be those who are gifted. Another example bin her the person lived in a cave because they had leprosy, and the family took care of them. Institutionalization: first solution institutionalization lasted a very long time, and still exists today attempt to take care of the disabled, feed them, cloth them. Example orrillia asylum for idiots opened in 1877, renamed huronia regional center in 1974. There were different levels of idiocy, idiot and imbecile meant different things depending on their intellectual level. Started with 150 people, grew to 7000 people. Ethical/practical problems they were taken away from society and live in isolation. Practical is it good for them to away from family, normal people, is it good for them to be with people with disabilities as themselves.
