PSYC 3850 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: David Wechsler, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3850
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

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All three processes are important when characterizing individuals with cids. De ning = providing a precise description of the meaning and boundaries of a term sensitivity to disability culture and disability pride acceptance of a strong self-advocacy movement guidelines for considering de nitions. Classifying = identifying subgroups of individuals within a de ned group, according to some criteria. *see classi cation of cids later in this note most commonly classi ed by aetiology guidelines for creating classi cation systems. Early descriptions of individuals with cids date back to 1500 bc. Attempts were made to di erentiate cid from mental illness and to identify possible causes. Esquirol (1845): de ned idiocy as not a disease, but as a condition di erentiation from mental illness. Seguin (1866): rst to attribute a speci c cause (prenatal de ciency)