Developments in the Developmental Approach to Intellectual Disability
| Autor: | Cathryn Gordon Green, Jacob A. Burack, Oriane Landry, Grace Iarocci, Natalie Russo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Down syndrome
education.field_of_study 05 social sciences Population medicine.disease Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Developmental stage theories Intellectual disability Learning disability medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social competence Medical model of disability medicine.symptom Psychology education 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology Mental age |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Psychopathology |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9781119125556.devpsy301 |
| Popis: | Based in classic developmental theory and in more than two centuries of ever increasingly sophisticated medical thinking and science, the developmental approach has transformed the theory, methodology, and interpretation of the study of persons with intellectual disability. The primary contributions include the differentiation among persons with intellectual disability by etiology, the application of developmental principles to the specific etiological groups, the emphasis on mental age (MA) (rather than chronological age; CA), and the consideration of the “whole person” along with his or her family and community. In debunking the monolithic approach to intellectual disability as a single disorder, the developmental approach allows for considerably more precision in the study of this population and the resultant rejection of common myths, albeit as part of a process that highlights the extent to which this field is a nascent one. In highlighting the broadening of the understanding of persons with intellectual disability, we review contributions from the study of social competence, language development, and family relations. We then introduce the potential impact and current limitations of the application of cutting-edge technology in the study of neuroscience among persons with intellectual disability. Keywords: developmental approach; etiological differentiation; Down syndrome; fragile X; intellectual disability; mental age (MA); Prader-Willi syndrome; Williams syndrome |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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