Dozois 14- Neurodevelopment Disorders Flashcards
a historical movement that viewed people with disabilities as a treat to the moral and intellectual fibre of society. This movement called for segregation, sterilization, the restriction of marriages, and institutionalization to protect society from this treat. Associated disabilities and crime.
Eugenics movement.
The repetition of meaningless gestures or movements
stereotypy
etiology more biological is why it is placed at the beginning of DSM
Neurodevelopment disorders
behavior and emotional problems in children can be categorized as
Externalizing problems and internalizing problems
includes behavioural problems or problems of under-
control (ODD, CD)
Externalizing problems
includes emotional problems (depression anxiety, separation anxiety (SAD), selective mutism, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), mood disorders (including newly added disruptive mood dysregulation disorder)
Internalizing problems
Adaptive behavior or daily living skills measuring are generally clustered under four domains:
communication, daily living or personal living skills, socializations, motor skills.
Because of the stigma of disabilities, disabled persons feel the need to deny their cognitive handicap and attempt to pass as normal society
cloak of competence
The tendency of the individuals with developmental disorders to answer affirmatively or agree in interviews
acquiescence
What are the three types of inheritance (genetics)
dominant, recessive, sex-linked or X-linked
A procedure conducted between the eleventh and eighteenth weeks of pregnancy
Amniocentesis
Involves obtaining cells from the placenta
chorionic villus sampling (CVS)
Best known of several rare metabolic disorders that can cause intellectual disability.
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
a concept which suggested that the lives of individuals with disabilities should be as “normal” as possible
Normalization principle
Provision of community-based accommodation and services.
deinstitutionalization
right of the individual with disability to choose to take some risk in engaging in life experiences and the consequences that are associated with those risks.
Dignity of risk
common characteristic of speech in children with autism where the child will repeat another person’s words or phrases, using the same or similar intonation.
Echolalia
common characteristic of autistic individuals where they will often refer to themselves ass he or she rather than I
pronoun reversal
inability to attribute mental states to oneself and others
theory of mind
Display islets of exceptional ability in areas such a mathematics, music, or art, unusual feats of memory
Savant
An impairment in phonological processing
dyslexia
deficits associated with mathematics
dyscalculia
impairments in spelling, writing fluency, and writing expressions
disgraphia
