Exam 14: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

The three domains of adaptive skills used today by the AAMR/AAIDD in the definition of intellectual disability are

Prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities is possible through __________; this procedure is conducted between the __________ weeks of pregnancy.

IQ / achievement discrepancy is a method of detecting students who are faking a learning disability.

__________ therapy appears to be very effective in treating many of the problems associated with developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorder.

Which of the following is not a metabolic disorder?

The Dementia Scale for Down Syndrome (DSDS) was developed to detect and rate the severity of dementia among people who are not verbal and who cannot follow test instructions.

It has been observed that about a third of youth in correctional institutions have learning disabilities. What are two explanations that have been put forward?

Karen is taking her son David for an assessment concerning a potential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. They are most likely to be assessed by a

Evidence-based reading interventions target all of the following except:

The choice of cutoff IQ scores for the diagnosis of intellectual disability

What is the normalization principle? What has it led to?

Which of the following is NOT associated with Down syndrome?

__________ is the most common hereditary cause of intellectual disability.

In North America, the term __________ is used to refer to normal intelligence with specific learning problems (such as reading), while in Britain it refers to mental handicap.

Estimates of the prevalence rates of dual diagnosis (co-occurrence of behavioural or psychiatric disorders in people with developmental disabilities) range from

Children with autism, rather than referring to themselves as I, often refer to themselves as "he" or "she." This behaviour is referred to as

__________, a drug prescribed by European physicians in the 1950s and 1960s for nausea, was found to cause limb deficiencies or malformations in infants.

Reading disorders stem from a core deficit in:

Difficulties with mathematics may stem from a core deficit in:

With regard to diagnosis of autism and Asperger's Disorder, the DSM-5