PSYC 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Autism Spectrum, Visible Minority, Magnet School

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3600
• Professor: Thao Nguyen

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In terms of enrichment education: these programs help economically disadvantaged children, one of these programs: head start in the us, utilizes ideas of community psych: asking parents of what would be an appropriate program design. Although there are significant changes that happen as a result, which lead to desegregation, there is still existing discrimination within school system: nowadays, prejudice and discrimination are not as overt as before. But we see more covert types of discrimination: watching for actions versus words is important in order to prevent discrimination. Asian male who was in his early teens. He was having difficulties at school academically and emotionally. Mother had expressed that during his elementary school years, teachers were prejudiced due to his speech difficulties and so as a result they thought he wasn"t intelligent enough. Upon assessment, it was found his weaknesses were in the average range.