Psyc 391 Lecture 2

Roughly 6,000 births per year and 400,000 people are living with it today.....so true?

False. 99% of cases are not hereditary. Only correlation is that the risk of down syndrome increases with the mothers age (over 35).

The rate of incidence increases with mothers over the age of 35 HOWEVER...The sheer number is more for women under 35 due to the fact that they have more children.

True they have MILD to MODERATE cognitive delays

False. They do not...are able to graduate with normal degrees, participate in normal programs and integrate with society and their community.

False, they are unable to express or interpret smaller less obvious emotional cues. However are still capable of expressing a range of emotions.

False. Able to have meaningful relationships both friendship and eventually marriage. They have difficulty with more sophisticated social interactions involving confiding, intimacy and reciprocity. Have fewer peers on average.

Trisomy. When you have 3 copies of chromosome 21. It's the most common chromosomal disorder and most common cause of intellectual disorder.

Flattened facial appearance

Epicanthal folds

Upwards slanting palpebral fissures

Flat nasal bridge

Protruding tongue

Chronological age (maturity and experience)

Mental age (IQ is average for specific age)

Language/Motor function

HOWEVER

Deficits and strengths of mental ages matched their peers

Short-term, auditory and working memory

Language, articulation and grammar

Social emotions, difficulty reproducing and understanding

High risk of mental health...such as Alzheimer's, hyperactivity, impassivity and aggression.

Raise at a rate of about 10 pts per decade. Due to better education, stimulation, environment, nutrition, etc...

People who are very gifted at a specific unusual task (drawing, music or mathematics...etc..). However it's accompanied by some form of brain damage (50%) or autism (50%). Theorized that they are able to access low level less processed information in the brain that is normally lost in the subconscious.

Substantial limitations in present functioning

Significantly sub-average intellectual functioning

Manifested during the developmental period

Valid assessments are designed

(Cultural and linguistic diversity)

Limitations in adaptive skills are relative

(To peers of similar environments/age)

Adaptive limitations can come with strengths

(That make up for limitations in other areas)

Appropriate support is necessary

(Support will improve life function of people)

Ability to independently manage ordinary activities of daily life

Ability to understand and judge social expectations and behaviors in social situations

1. Intellectual functioning and adaptive skills

2. Psychological and emotional

3. Physical, health and etiology

4. Environmental conditions

1. Diagnosis of ID (DIMENSION 1)

(Determines eligibility of support)

2. Classification and description (DIMENSION 2/3/4)

(Strengths and weaknesses and the needs for support)

3. Profile and intensity of support

(Identify the type of support needed for all 4 dimensions)

115 and above is mildly gifted

180 and above is god mode

70 and below is mild ID

20 and below is essentially brain dead

You must match the person with an environment/situation that allows for proper growth and maturation.

Altering or creating and experience that best suites the needs of the person(s) involved.

Look at the normal curve v.s ID curve to understand where struggles are most evident. Some problems are amplified by assumptions made whilst in reality they're developing at an appropriate pace.