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Themember4 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

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

leeeep · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 22, 2018

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

A