Chapter 5 Flashcards
Explain what significantly subaverage intellectual functioning and deficits in current adaptive function in conceptual, social, and practical domain entail.
- iq <69
- Conceptual: words, time, alphabet, money have meaning, language
Social: Rules, highly gullible
Practical: independent self-care, toilet, eating, changing, brushing teath
what two domains must be assesed when determinining developmental disorder?
- intelligence: verbal and nonverbal preformance tasks
- Adaptive functioning: basic skills in communication, self-care, social, leasure, & work
What do treatments that use shaping for language training entail?
- saying utterance, being positvely reinforced
- building blocks to words
- wokring up a heirarchy to more advanced utterances
What do treatments that use modeling and graduated guidance entail?
- show child how to do certain task (brush hair/teeth)
- have a child model, graduated guidance (hand over hand method)
What do treatments that use operant learning principles entail?
- postive or negative reinforcement (few punishment use)
- increase appropriate behavior and decrease inappropriate
What do social skills training treatments entail?
-positive reinforment for engaging in interpersonal skills
- treat for smiling at people, sharing
What do social inclusion treatments entail?
- enaging with neurotypical children their age
- increase child’s quantity and quality of peer relationships
for which types of youth would cognitive-bahavioral treatments for be most appropriate?
- most affecftive for children with some receptive and expressive language skiulls
- inner self talk to help navigate daily life
what kinds of family strategies are effective for treating youth with intellectual developemental disorders?
- support, guidance, access to services and respite
- short-term problem-focused therapies
