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Childhood Cognitive Disorders
 Mental Retardation
 Learning Disorders
 Communication Disorders
Mental Retardation
REMINDER: Code MR on Axis II
Diagnostic Criteria for MR
 impaired general intellectual functioning
 impaired adaptive functioning
 onset prior to age 18
Intellectual Functioning
• approximately males
Course
• life long (although adaptive functioning may improve)
• shortened life span in profound MR
Etiology
• 2/3 known
• Genetics
• Prenatal
• Perinatal
• Acquired Medical Condition
• Sociocultural Factors?
Treatment
• family education
• behavioral therapy
• pharmacological

Learning Disorders
 Reading Disorder
 Mathematics Disorder
 Disorder of Written Expression
 Learning Disorder, NOS
Diagnostic Criteria
 achievement below expected:
• based on age and education AND
• based on IQ
**2 SD discrepancy between IQ and achievement
A learning...

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