Your Path to Success: DD Exam 1 Study Guide
developmental disabilities - correct answer ✔✔severe, chronic; mental or physical impairment; causes
limitations in adaptive behavior; age of onset < 22 years
intellectual disabilities - correct answer ✔✔IQ < 70; poor adaptive behavior; age of onset < 22 years
assumptions of intellectual disabilities - correct answer ✔✔context-dependency, decision based on valid
measurements, strengths & weaknesses profile, supports = improvement
social forces affecting treatment - correct answer ✔✔knowledge of causes of DD; money/societal
resources/medical technologies; cultural values
ancient times and Middle Ages - correct answer ✔✔misunderstanding (e.g., curse) & maltreatment (e.g.,
banishment, death)
tabular rasa - correct answer ✔✔neutrality; promise for improvement with supports
noble savage - correct answer ✔✔inherent goodness; innocent
ship of fools - correct answer ✔✔when they would put disabled people on ships and go to towns so they
could entertain the towns people
seguin physiologic method - correct answer ✔✔systematic training; hierarchy of skills (movement &
sensation to self-care to job training); training goal = improvement & independence
roles of institutions - correct answer ✔✔segregation; custodial care; education
factors of institutions - correct answer ✔✔education movement (failure); wars / poverty (e.g., Civil War
& Great Depression)
, henry Goodall - correct answer ✔✔The Kallikak’s; "menace of the feebleminded"; genetic determination
(and cause of social ills; e.g., crime, drunkenness)
sterilization - correct answer ✔✔forced sterilization then release
carrie buck - correct answer ✔✔challenged law; social institutionalization, did not have a DD
buck v. bell (1927) - correct answer ✔✔Allowed eugenic sterilization for anyone who was found to be
incompetent ; Was misdiagnosed; Was sterilized without consent ; The law went on for 30 years in
Virginia; Saw that being feeble minded was genetic (her mother was also feeble minded; She went to
court to not be sterilized; Her sister was sterilized as a result of this- she never knew this until later in her
life; Her daughter died around the age of 8
overcrowding - correct answer ✔✔Increased institutionalization rates; all levels of ID; Few returned to
community as independents (permanency)
human expirimentation - correct answer ✔✔nazi germany; US expiriments
public awareness - correct answer ✔✔exposés; e.g., Margaret Bourke-White, Geraldo
Rivera/Willowbrook
post WWII - correct answer ✔✔focus on ethical treatments
parent advocay groups - correct answer ✔✔Lack of governmental resources; Growing knowledge of
deteriorating conditions; Interest: shift to family and community based services
federal recognition - correct answer ✔✔Kennedy family (e.g., Rosemary, John, Eunice); research funding
(e.g., NIH); increased knowledge; social programs (Special Olympics, Best Buddies)
willow brook expose - correct answer ✔✔"Unforgotten"; Original report and follow ups
Wyatt Stickney act (1970) - correct answer ✔✔minimal levels of institutional care
developmental disabilities - correct answer ✔✔severe, chronic; mental or physical impairment; causes
limitations in adaptive behavior; age of onset < 22 years
intellectual disabilities - correct answer ✔✔IQ < 70; poor adaptive behavior; age of onset < 22 years
assumptions of intellectual disabilities - correct answer ✔✔context-dependency, decision based on valid
measurements, strengths & weaknesses profile, supports = improvement
social forces affecting treatment - correct answer ✔✔knowledge of causes of DD; money/societal
resources/medical technologies; cultural values
ancient times and Middle Ages - correct answer ✔✔misunderstanding (e.g., curse) & maltreatment (e.g.,
banishment, death)
tabular rasa - correct answer ✔✔neutrality; promise for improvement with supports
noble savage - correct answer ✔✔inherent goodness; innocent
ship of fools - correct answer ✔✔when they would put disabled people on ships and go to towns so they
could entertain the towns people
seguin physiologic method - correct answer ✔✔systematic training; hierarchy of skills (movement &
sensation to self-care to job training); training goal = improvement & independence
roles of institutions - correct answer ✔✔segregation; custodial care; education
factors of institutions - correct answer ✔✔education movement (failure); wars / poverty (e.g., Civil War
& Great Depression)
, henry Goodall - correct answer ✔✔The Kallikak’s; "menace of the feebleminded"; genetic determination
(and cause of social ills; e.g., crime, drunkenness)
sterilization - correct answer ✔✔forced sterilization then release
carrie buck - correct answer ✔✔challenged law; social institutionalization, did not have a DD
buck v. bell (1927) - correct answer ✔✔Allowed eugenic sterilization for anyone who was found to be
incompetent ; Was misdiagnosed; Was sterilized without consent ; The law went on for 30 years in
Virginia; Saw that being feeble minded was genetic (her mother was also feeble minded; She went to
court to not be sterilized; Her sister was sterilized as a result of this- she never knew this until later in her
life; Her daughter died around the age of 8
overcrowding - correct answer ✔✔Increased institutionalization rates; all levels of ID; Few returned to
community as independents (permanency)
human expirimentation - correct answer ✔✔nazi germany; US expiriments
public awareness - correct answer ✔✔exposés; e.g., Margaret Bourke-White, Geraldo
Rivera/Willowbrook
post WWII - correct answer ✔✔focus on ethical treatments
parent advocay groups - correct answer ✔✔Lack of governmental resources; Growing knowledge of
deteriorating conditions; Interest: shift to family and community based services
federal recognition - correct answer ✔✔Kennedy family (e.g., Rosemary, John, Eunice); research funding
(e.g., NIH); increased knowledge; social programs (Special Olympics, Best Buddies)
willow brook expose - correct answer ✔✔"Unforgotten"; Original report and follow ups
Wyatt Stickney act (1970) - correct answer ✔✔minimal levels of institutional care
