Intellectual Disabilities Across the Lifespan

Description

• NEW! “Tips for the Professional”–Strategies in every chapter which translate concepts into practical, real-world settings.
• NEW! “Parent and Professional Organization Positions on Key Issues in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities”–Featured at the end of every chapter summarizing how organizations area ddressing key issues in the field.
• NEW! Greater emphasis on core concepts, professional standards, and competencies–Establishes a clear connection between theory and practice.
• NEW! Section on genetics and prevention issues.
• NEW! Increased emphasis on social supports as well as family supports for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
• NEW! More applications throughout–Including chapter previews, reflective questions, and chapter reviews.

Intellectual Disabilities Across the Lifespan, Ninth Edition, examines the true complexity of intellectual disabilities and their impact on a broad range of educational, psychological, and social issues in a readable, multidiciplinary, lifespan approach.  This thorough, current, and research-based book stresses the human components of intellectual disabilities through the authors’ rich, personal stories.

The new title of this classic text better reflects contemporary views of this disabilitiy and emphasizes the authors’ commitment to focus on individuals with intellectual disabilities from conception through adulthood and aging.  Additional features now include:

• Tips for the Professional strategies, which translate concepts into practical, real-world settings
• Parent and Professional Organization Positions on Key Issues In the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities features at the end of every chapter summarizing how organizations are addressing key issues in the field
• Greater emphasis on core concepts, professional standards, and competencies, establishing a clear connection between theory and practice
• A new section on genetics and prevention issues
• Increased emphasis on social supports as well as family supports for individuals with intellectual disabilities
• More applications through chapter previews, reflective questions, and chapter reviews

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 Understanding Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 2 Diversity Issues

PART 2: IDENTIFYING PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

Chapter 3 Assessment Issues and Procedures

Chapter 4 Understanding Intelligence and Adaptive Skills

PART 3: DEVELOPMENT AND CAUSATION

Chapter 5 Basic Principles of Early Development

Chapter 6 Early Influences and Causation

PART 4: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL YEARS

Chapter 7 Infancy and Early Childhood

Chapter 8 The Elementary School-Age Child with Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 9 The Adolescent with Intellectual Disabilities and the Transitional Years

PART 5: ADULTHOOD AND AGING

Chapter 10 The Adult Years

Chapter 11 The Older Person with Intellectual Disabilities

PART 6: FAMILY AND SOCIAL ISSUES

Chapter 12 Families

Chapter 13 Social and Ethical Issues

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• NEW! “Tips for the Professional”–Strategies in every chapter which translate concepts into practical, real-world settings.

• NEW! “Parent and Professional Organization Positions on Key Issues in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities”–Featured at the end of every chapter summarizing how organizations area ddressing key issues in the field.

• NEW! Greater emphasis on core concepts, professional standards, and competencies–Establishes a clear connection between theory and practice; facilitates instruction and meeting program competencies.

• NEW! Section on genetics and prevention issues.

• NEW! More applications throughout–Including chapter previews, reflective questions, and chapter reviews.

• NEW! Two reflective questions added after snapshots-Gives students an opportunity to think about and discuss various aspects of intellectual disabilities as they learn.

• Presentation of mental retardation and intellectual disabilities from a developmental perspective–Includes prenatal through the elder years, and contrasts normal development with developmental deviations that have risks for mental retardation.
• Helps future teachers understand the affect of mental retardation across the lifespan–can serve as an organizational framework for both student comprehension and course structure.

• Presentation of mental retardation from the viewpoint of many disciplines—Addresses the impact of such issues as poverty, language development, and cultural differences on the treatment and accommodation of people with mental retardation.
• Highlights the benefits of collaboration across fields to assist individuals with the disability—creates a text that’s equally appropriate for courses in a variety of areas, including psychology, special education, social work, nursing, and other health-related fields.

• Inclusion of stories, case studies, and vignettes—Throughout the text. Personalizes this disability in the eyes of students—ensures they see mental retardation as more than a topic for study, but also as a collection of stories about other human beings and the challenges they face.

• Roundtable Discussion sections–At the end of each chapter. Presents an issue or topic of interest related to the chapter topic in a format aimed at stimulating in-class discussions.

• Opening Snapshot features—Mini-cases that start every chapter. Personalizes mental retardation and intellectual disabilities for those who will work with it on a daily basis—instills in readers a sense of the impact such a diagnosis can have, not only on the individual with the disability, but also on parents, siblings, and family and community dynamics.

• Features significant treatment of multicultural issues in Chapter 2, Diversity Issues–Plus integrated discussion of the impact of such issues as poverty and language/culture differences.
• Places mental retardation and intellectual disabilities squarely in multicultural context–highlighting areas in which educators are likely to face challenges and providing a rich field from which to reap topics for in-class discussions and homework assignments.
• Includes the latest definition of mental retardation from AAMR (The American Association on Mental Retardation) and intellectual disabilities.

This book provides an introduction to intellectual disabilities that is highly readable, comprehensive, and reflective of the broad array of human stories associated with this condition.  This volume is strongly based in human development and follows the development of individuals with intellectual disabilities from conception through birth, infancy, and early childhood, and then through the elementary school, adolescent, and adult years.  Intellectual disabilities is a field in which this complete cycle of human life is important for a full understanding of the challenges and issues involved.

The authors also examine intellectual disabilities from the perspective of many disciplines.  It is important to examine collaboration among disciplines and its impact on the person with intellectual disabilities and his or her family.

This edition has updated and expanded coverage of a number of growing areas related to the field of intellectual disabilities.