Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disorder

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

Document Summary

Significantly sub-average intellectual functioning and deficits or impairment in at least 2 areas of life functioning: self care, communication, home-living, interpersonal/social, self-direction, academic, occupational, leisure, safety. Fragile x syndrome: most common inherited intellectual disability, occurs when dna makes too many copies of itself, environmental. In the past families were encouraged ot institutionalized child: today, 90% live with families or group homes, not reversible, psychological treatments. Shaping and chaining: medical treatments, does not treat core symptoms, but sued for existing psychological disorders such as attentional and aggressive behaviours. Involuntary sterilization and the eugenics movement: late 19th century, early 20th century, social problems the result of intellectual disability, between 1928-1972, 4000 canadians were forcible sterilized, many sued the government when the act was repealed. Specific learning disorders: conditions involving academic achievement below expectations for age, years in school, and iq score, dyslexia: reading scores lower than expected for child"s age, dyscalculia: diminished ability to understand mathematical terms, dysgraphia: disorder of written expression.