GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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Providing treatment to people with intellectual disabilities
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Returning people with disabilities to their home community
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Providing vocational training in sheltered workshops
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Teaching individuals with intellectual disabilities to read and write
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Detailed explanation-1: -People with disabilities were treated in monasteries and hospitals where methods such as exorcism, prayer, incantations, magical herbs, and laying on of the hands were used (Obermann, 1965).
Detailed explanation-2: -Who was the first person to develop methods for educating people with intellectual disabilities? Jean Itard. Tony is a typically developing student in preschool. He learned to discriminate between a circle and a triangle in 3 trials.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the very first references to intellectual disability date back to the ancient Egyptians, where this concept is mentioned in the Papyrus of Thebes over 3500 years ago. The ancient Romans and Greeks viewed that children are born with an intellectual disability because the gods are angry.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout history, people with intellectual disability were stigmatised, feared, persecuted and frequently mistreated. It wasn’t until the mid to late 19th century that a more positive approach to people with intellectual disability began.