Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Desmopressin, Dysgraphia, Sheltered Workshop

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Iq score from a standardized test of intellectual functioning is used to help in estimating the extent of impairment. Disorder that includes both intellectual deficits and adaptive functioning deficits in 3 domains: conceptual (language, reading, writing, math, memory, social (empathy, social judgement, interpersonal communication, friendship, practice (personal care, job responsibilities, money management) Supported employment training and job coach to help people succeed in meaningful job. Sheltered workshop free-standing workplace where workers perform tasks for businesses. Mainstreaming: children with disabilities are included in regular classroom settings, promotes acceptance of people with intellectual disabilities, enhance self-esteem. Phenylketonuria body cannot break down phenylalanine because enzyme is absent: accumulates in the body causing mental and physical abnormalities, white and natives have highest rate, restricted low-protein diet. Fragile x syndrome dna series makes too many copies of itself and turns off a gene on the x chromosome: cells do not make necessary protein, have other behavioural disorders, boys are more likely than girls.