Psyc 391 Lecture 2

Front 1

True or False

Down syndrome is a rare disorder?

Back 1

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

Front 2

True or False

Down syndrome patients have a shorter life span?

Back 2

True HOWEVER, life expectancy has increased dramatically in recent years.....more due to lack of understanding and proper treatment. Almost similar to those without down syndrome.

Front 3

True or False

Is down syndrome hereditary?

Back 3

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

Front 4

True or False

Most children with down syndrome are born to older parents?

Back 4

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.

Front 5

True or False

People with down syndrome have cognitive delays?

Back 5

True they have MILD to MODERATE cognitive delays

Front 6

True or False

Children with down syndrome need to be placed in segregated special education programs?

Back 6

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

Front 7

True or False

People with down syndrome are always happy?

Back 7

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

Front 8

True or False

People with down syndrome are unable to form close interpersonal relationships including marriage?

Back 8

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.

Front 9

Cause of down syndrome

Back 9

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

Front 10

Facial features of down syndrome

Back 10

Flattened facial appearance

Epicanthal folds

Upwards slanting palpebral fissures

Flat nasal bridge

Protruding tongue

Front 11

Matching issues between ID and DD

Back 11

Chronological age (maturity and experience)

Mental age (IQ is average for specific age)

Language/Motor function

Front 12

Contrasting issues between ID and DD

Back 12

Development is delayed

HOWEVER

Deficits and strengths of mental ages matched their peers

Front 13

Down syndrome deficits (Mental)

Back 13

Short-term, auditory and working memory

Language, articulation and grammar

Social emotions, difficulty reproducing and understanding

Front 14

Down syndrome deficits (Physical)

Back 14

Muscle tone, gross and fine motor activities

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

Front 15

IQ levels in society

Back 15

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

Front 16

Savant

Back 16

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.

Front 17

DSM-5 characteristics of ID

Back 17

Substantial limitations in present functioning

Significantly sub-average intellectual functioning

Manifested during the developmental period

Front 18

4 assumptions essential the application of the definition of ID

Back 18

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)

Front 19

Practical intelligence

Back 19

Ability to independently manage ordinary activities of daily life

Front 20

Social intelligence

Back 20

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

Front 21

Multidimensional approach to assesment

Back 21

1. Intellectual functioning and adaptive skills

2. Psychological and emotional

3. Physical, health and etiology

4. Environmental conditions

Front 22

3 steps to ID

Back 22

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)

Front 23

Gifted IQ

Back 23

115 and above is mildly gifted

180 and above is god mode

Front 24

ID IQ

Back 24

70 and below is mild ID

20 and below is essentially brain dead

Front 25

Horowitz's Matching the individual

Back 25

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

Front 26

Horowitz's Purposely engineered experience

Back 26

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

Front 27

Horowitz's parallels between TD and ID

Back 27

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.