FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Compulsory Education, Stereotype Threat, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Glozman

Document Summary

Ethnic & gender differences: asian american > white > latino & african american, asians believe that success = effort, so they"re less likely to accept poor performance instead of parents who believe that ability = success. 10% of adolescents in north america have been diagnosed with one of these and of those diagnosed have a comorbid learning disabilities: diagnosis is made when the child has normal intelligence but difficulty in one or more academic areas that can"t be diagnosed by any other biological disorder, can be tied to neurological development deficits in functioning we use the gap between intelligence tests and academic achievement test scores to determine whether or not there"s a learning disability, reading is the most common source of difficulty, boys are twice as likely to have a learning disability, early intervention: intervention has to start early and delivered by teachers who are committed and involved.