FRHD 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intellectual Disability, Muscle Tone

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2110
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Risk factors y biological and/or environmental causes of potential adverse outcomes y etiology: the signs or studies of causes of disease or abnormal conditions y consequences. Risk y established risk well known: genetic, chromosomal, hereditary, eg. Down syndrome, we know the cause and it is specific y biological risk. Infections, intoxicants, nutrition, accidents: eg, fetal alcohol syndrome y environmental risk, life experiences, family dynamics, poverty, cultural/linguistic differences, family dynamics ( what s happening in the family, not how the family is structured) Environmental influences y non-shared environmental influences that people living together do not share, should make individuals different from each other y shared environmental influences that people living together share that should make individuals similar to each other. D added to milk y secondary: try to decrease severity from risk of failing, eg. Home visiting programs for pregnant women y tertiary.