FRHD 2110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Developmental Disability, Intellectual Disability, Asperger Syndrome
7 Oct 2014
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Exceptionality inability to do something, diminished capacity (umbrella term) means many different things. Disability an inability to do something with typical maturation, opportunity & instruction. Understand the concept ex) a child from an impoverished country that did not get the opportunity to learn to read, and is now 20 and is illiterate is not a disability. Handicap disadvantage due to impairment (imposed on a person) At risk risk status for likelihood of a particular experience/outcome (eg fail school) Health care management technical or medical support. Impairment psychosocial impairment: impaired cognitive ability, someone having a psychotic breakdown. Developmental disability a number of conditions whereby the individual is significantly behind other people in terms of intellectual, social and life skills development. Assumptions and practices that promote unequal treatment of people because of difference: handicappism (people with exceptionalities, people-first approach. Person first, exception second this person who has autism not this autistic child : mental retardation (used in the medical profession)
