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Mental Retardation : Treatments

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The primary goal of treatment is to develop the person's potential to the fullest. Special education and training may begin as early as infancy. This includes social skills to help the person function as normally as possible. It is important for a...
Source:ADAM
Date:November 2, 2009
The treatment team will depend on the underlying cause of mental retardation. A neurologist, neuropsychologist, child psychiatrist, and/or development pediatrician may be helpful for nearly all cases of mental retardation, both to assess underlyin...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Federal legislation entitles mentally retarded children to free testing and appropriate, individualized education and skills training within the school system from ages 3-21. For children under the age of three, many states have established early ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Federal legislation entitles mentally retarded children to free testing and appropriate, individualized education and skills training within the school system from ages three to 21. For children under the age of three, many states have established...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Federal legislation entitles mentally retarded children to free testing and appropriate, individualized education and skills training within the school system from ages three to 21. For children under the age of three, many states have established...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Behavioral therapy, or behavioral modification, is a psychological technique based on the premise that specific, observable, maladaptive, badly adjusted, or self-destructing behaviors can be modified by learning new, more appropriate behaviors to ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The box-like structure and people''s misunderstandings about behavioral psychology contributed to the misconception that Skinner was experimenting on his daughter and also probably prevented the crib from becoming a commercial success. People got t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Behavior modification is a treatment approach, based on the principles of operant conditioning, that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement.Behavior modification is used to treat a variet...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Behavior therapy was developed during the 1950s by researchers and therapists critical of the psychodynamic.treatment methods that prevailed at the time. It drew on a variety of theoretical work, including the classical conditioning principles of ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Educational instruction or social services designed or modified to assist individuals with disabilities.Special education refers to a range of services, including social work services and rehabilitative counseling, provided to individuals with dis...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Special education refers to a range of educational and social services provided by the public school system and other educational institutions to individuals with disabilities who are between three and 21 years of age.Special education is designed...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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