Exam 15: Disorders of Childhood

Peticlerc and Tremblay (2009)from the Université de Montréal reported that the prevention of conduct disorders in children:

The Montreal Declaration on Intellectual Disabilities emphasizes three fundamental rights of people with an intellectual disability, including equality, non-discrimination, and __________.

The Autism Genome Project Consortium (2007)identified that __________ may play a critical role in autism spectrum disorders.

Disorders that affect children:

Conduct disorder is associated with ______.

A diagnosis of specific learning disorder can refer to dyslexia or mathematics disorder.

The association between nicotine and ADHD is:

The generalist genes hypothesis for learning disorders states that:

It is recommended that people with phenylketonuria (PKU):

Mildly retarded individuals have IQs between about:

When educating mentally retarded children, academic skills:

Approximately 30% of individuals who have severe autistic symptoms as children experience ___________ in adolescence.

Kutcher et al. (2010)remarked that, in Canada, mental health services for children are:

Antipsychotic medications are used to treat all the various symptoms of autism.

In the U.S., a growing proportion of prescriptions for stimulant medication for ADHD are being written by:

Applied behaviour analysis is a successful component of treatment for people with intellectual disability disorder.

Leilani Muir's forced sexual sterilization was particularly heinous because:

Conduct disorder with an early onset in childhood (prior to age 10)is most likely to lead to which adult disorder?

What is the best diagnostic label for Misha? At six years of age, she does not play with others and turns away when they approach her. She spends much of her time spinning a pencil endlessly in her fingers. She does not talk to others although she does sing jingles from T.V. commercials.

An important shift in focus for the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities has been: