All About Intellectual Disability
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Find out more in this video about intellectual disability!
References:
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Mash, E. J. & Wolfe, D. A. (2016). Abnormal Child Psychology (6th ed). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Hello, Danira! This video is very informative. Thank you for sharing tho! Anyway do you have any idea what could we possibly do to help them engage with their environment? How could we support them thoroughly? :)
Thank you for the compliment, Cintia! To support these children and help them engage with their environment, we must assess their uniqueness; their temprament, capacity, functioning, abilities, and attachment. By knowing each child's unique characteristics, we can approach them in specialized ways for each child to engage with them easier and help them engage with their environment based on those characteristics. I hope this answer helps! :)
Hello, your video was very informative but what can a parent do at home to help a child that has mild intellectual disability? Any tips?
Hi! First of all, I'd like to compliment you on this video. It's very engaging. Anyway, I would like to ask a question. If inadequate stimulation could cause ID, how severe would the effects be? Would it just cause mild, maybe moderate ID, and thus would be relatively easier to treat than other, more biologically rooted cases? Thanks!
Hi Devina, thanks for the compliment! To answer your question, only a small percentage of kids with ID has their exact cause identified. While it's true that inadequate stimulation causes ID, clinicians don't know how much part it takes place in causing ID. From observation, lack of stimulation tends to refer to external causes such as food/care/communication. But more research is needed in order to identify if external causes affect their brains neurobiologically (and how those causes affects the brain), since ID itself is a neurobiological disorder. I hope my answer helps :)
Hi, in the moderate category you said that there's difference in communication behaviors, can you guys explain the communication behaviors in children with intellectual disability that differenciate them from others?
Children with moderate ID tend to fail grasping social rules, thus creating their own. Their self-proclaimed rules tend to clash with our existing rules in our society, making them stand out and seem different. For example in the video, the child demands the phone to be passed on to every guest in the room so they could see the pictures. But the child isn't aware that this gesture seems odd in our society, making her way of interacting with people different.
Hey im wondering about the "inadequate stimulation" you've mentioned, can you explain it more about how many is adequate and how many is inadequate when it comes to etiology of ID?
'Inadequate' means not enough or insufficient to reach something. In this case, it means that the stimulation (whether it's food/communication/care) given to the child is not enough in order for them to progress normally through their development span. The number itself varies among every child, so there's no exact number or percentage to explain how many is adequate/inadequate. I hope my answer helps :)
Hi Danira, thankyou for this really helpful video! But i have this question regarding the parent training that you mention as the early intervention for a child with ID. Could you perhaps elaborate more about the training? And do you personally think that the Indonesian parents ( w/ a kid that suffers ID) are aware enough of the need for this training?
Hi Audi, thanks for the compliment! To answer your question, parent training could help parents of children with ID to help them shape their child with desired behaviours, learn about unique characteristics of their child (that helps them teach and interact with her), and acts as a support system between the parent, the therapist, and possibly other parents of kids with ID. I personally think Indonesian parents are getting more aware that ID is a neurobiological disorder and are starting to reach out for help to psychologists and special schools. They realize that this is an actual disorder, not something related to witchcraft or 'guna-guna', thus realizing that they need help for their child and themselves. I hope my answer helps! :)
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Can you explain about cognitive behavioral therapy for treating kids with ID? because so far that i know of, we can't cure ID
Yes, ID can't be cured. But we could treat them, meaning we could lessen their symptoms and help them improve their daily life through therapy. One of the therapies I mentioned in this video is CBT. It helps children with ID how tor recognize cues to deal with tasks and helps them remind these cues when faced with a new task. Depending on the severity and their ability, some children could even talk about their emotions and feelings (that comes to them because of the ID), and the therapist teaches them how to deal with these feelings through various homeworks (again, depending on the severity and the child's ability). I hope my answer helps! :)
Helo, is there any possibilities that they could improve their abilities just like normal kids do?
Yes, through therapy these children could be shaped to perform desired behaviours. But even though they can learn behaviours, there will still be a difference in learning processes between children with ID and normal children. Shaping a behaviour is one thing, but changing their ability and capacity to learn is another thing. So even though they could behaviourally act like normal kids, their process of acquiring desired behaviours is different than normal kids and it tends to remain stagnant.
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Hi, may i ask, at what age can a child be evaluated for intellectual disability?
ID is assessed through IQ tests. These tests are meant for children at least 4 years old, so most clinicians tend to wait until the child reaches that age to diagnose them. I hope my answer helps :)
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