PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disability, Social Skills
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In addition to meeting children"s basic needs, parents are totally responsible for their children"s initial behavioral development, which is shared by teachers and others. Behavioral techniques are used to help parents teach their children to walk, develop language skills, toilet train or influence children to do household chores. Parents have also been taught behavioral strategies for decreasing problem behaviors such as nail biting, temper tantrums, aggressive behaviors and arguing. Clinical psychologists are sometimes needed to help parents treat their child"s problem. Applications in elementary school have been designed to change student behaviors that were disruptive or incompatible with academic learning. Other applications have involved modifying academic behavior directly, in class settings. An important innovation in behavioral approaches to teaching is the personalized. Two types of atypical developments that have received special attention from behavior modifiers are intellectual disabilities and autism. Intellectual disability: characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual.
