Intellectual disability (ID) is defined as the presence of incomplete mental development (Katz & Lazcano-Ponce‚ 2008). An intelligence quotient (IQ) score below 70-75 is commonly used to diagnose ID‚ and in affected children‚ observable deficits in linguistic‚ social‚ and cognitive skills reveal underlying delays in their development. ID may result from various developmental disorders such as Down and Fragile-X syndromes. Symptoms of ID in children include poorer long-term memory (LTM) than peers
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Flowers for algernon- CHAPTER SUMMARIES Progress report 1 -Dr Strauss tells him (Charlie Gordon) to write down what he remembers from now on -Works in Donner’s bakery‚ 32 years old -Learns 3 times a week at the Beekmin College for retarded adults -Charlie talks about being tested by Dr Strauss to see if they can make him smart Progress report 2 -Charlie has a test in the psych department that includes looking at cards with ink blots on them and is told to say what he sees on the cards with
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Chapter 2 Genotype-phenotype • Phenotype: an individual’s directly observable physical and behavioral characteristics‚ which are determined by both genetic and environmental factors • Genotype: an individual’s genetic makeup Genes-chromosomes • Chromosomes: rodlike structures in the cell nucleus that store and transmit genetic information • DNA: are what chromosomes are made out of; long‚ double-stranded molecule that looks like a twisted ladder‚ each ladder consists of a specific pair
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anything else because of his frail body‚ while Lennie can do almost anything he wants physically. It is their extremes that make them similar in their vulnerability. Another thing I see when analyzing the characters of Lennie and Doodle are their mental differences. Doodle is a very imaginative‚ intelligent‚ child‚ always telling stories and pretending. Lennie is a slow adult‚ like a big child‚ Lennie by today’s standards would be considered mentally retarded. As said before‚ Doodle has a very expansive
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remove children from the education system who‚ for whatever reason could not attend school‚ struggled or did not ’make substantial progress in scholastic and manual work’. These children were thought of as uneducable and placed under the charge of the Mental Deficiency Authorities. Lower limits were identified and were considered to be an IQ of around 50 or less. Differentiation was made by the Committee between ’educable defectives’ and ’uneducable defectives’‚ this put earlier categories of ’dull or
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impairments in using eye gaze to achieve joint attention and to understand the mental states of others. There is numerous research to determine how eye gaze can affect social
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career. She became involved with the neediest of patients. The neediest‚ she soon found‚ were what were then called “idiot children.” They were the mentally retarded who were kept in horrific conditions in asylums along with adults suffering severe mental illnesses. With her usual energy‚ she researched methods of helping them and soon gained fame for her remarkable successes. Maria Montessori later returned to university to study Philosophy
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Many feel that the mentally challenged are put through the many hardships of prejudice and maltreatment by people who lack the knowledge and understanding of their mental conditions. Usually what people don’t know about‚ they consider strange or awkward and this is the case with the hardships of the mentally challenged. Prejudice‚ maltreatment and ignorance towards the mentally challenged are illustrated by the novel‚ Flowers for Algernon. In Flowers for Algernon‚ Charlie Gordon‚ being mentally
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From the diaries of Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard‚ The Wild Child is a movie made in 1970‚ with a setting in France from the18th century‚ and based on a child who had lived in nature his whole life without any human contact. Itard‚ a well known French doctor for working with deaf-mutes‚ had taken in this feral child under his care for the purposes of his studies on the child’s intellectual and social education. Given the time period of the movie Itard had taken the "wild-child" in under his own care‚
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should not be put up for discussion. The right to conceive as well as being educated over intercourse should be kept and should be viewed as valuable to all mentally disabled people. In addition the importance that reproductive rights to people with mental disabilities have shows that they are equal and are in no shape or form different than any other individual. same as any other
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