Discuss Edward Zigler's developmental approach to intellectual ...

[Themember4]

Discuss Edward Zigler's developmental approach to intellectual developmental disorders (IDD), including the developmental-difference debate. How does this approach further the understanding and treatment of IDDs?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Dr. Mahoney is a cognitive-behavioral therapist. When treating a client with panic disorder, she is most likely to focus on the client's ____.
 
  a. thoughts before and during fearful episodes
  b. family history of panic disorder
  c. response to sodium lactate
  d. early childhood experiences with sexuality

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Answer to Question 1

 Edward Zigler (1969, 1971) asserted that the majority of children with intellectual developmental disabilities are more similar to than different from typically developing children
 Development is delayed in mastery of motor, cognitive, emotional, and social tasks
 Ultimate level of development falls short from typically developing peers
 Children with IDD follow same developmental sequence
 Furthers understanding in that it views the child in a holistic manner without an emphasis on what they can't do (deficit model) and focuses on individual differences  personalities, temperament, etc.
 Developmental-difference debate: focuses on nature of cognitive disabilities; one side suggesting that children with IDD develop in a similar but slower manner as same-aged peers, while the other side asserts that children with IDD think in qualitatively distinct/deficient ways; the second side focuses more on differences than similarities

Answer to Question 2

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[Themember4]

TYSM

[Dominic]

Great answer, keep it coming