PSY 460 Lecture 8: Child Exceptionality and Pathology Lecture 8
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Inclusion kids with disabilities are incorporated into least restricted environments. Intelligent quotient is not what should really be measured, and it doesn"t determine happiness emotional quotient (eq) does. Prior to mid-19th century: children and adults with intellectual disabilities were ignored or feared even by the medical profession. Intellectual disability a significant limitation in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior which begins before age 18 (0-18 is considered a developmental period) Tbi traumatic brain injury leading cause: car crashes. In the mid-19th century: samuel g. howe opened the first humanitarian institution in north. By the 1940s: parents increased humane care for their children. Families had more money and more power, and fought against the belief that kids with disabilities should be institutionalized: baby boom and growing middle class. 1950: national association for retarded children was formed. 1962: president john f. kennedy formed the president"s panel on mental retardation. Procedure that obliterates the prefrontal lobe through the eyelid.
