CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychoeducation, Percentile, Intelligence Quotient

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: John Mc Namara

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Internal: extent to which other explanations can be ruled out. Mutations in more than 40 genes to autism. Mutations are not present in unaffected parents" genomes but arise spontaneously in a single sperm or egg cell just prior to conception of a child. Identify children at-risk for learning disabilities in kindergarten. Longitudinal follow them from kindergarten all through grade 3. Asses their reading skills as they went along. But we identified them as at-risk for ld in kindergarten. Maybe they had a terrible teacher in kindergarten and had a great teacher in grade 1. Maybe there was a click in the development. The problem of over-identification a risk you assume. When working at an early age, abandon the quest for formal classification. The focus (and 15794) has shifted to early screening and programming. Quite simply those kids in jk or k who are screened and identified as needing support with reading get support with reading.