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| introduction to a Diverse Field | |
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| Each chapter ends with a summary | |
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| list of key terms | |
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| study questions, and recommended readings | |
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| Defining Developmental Disabilities | |
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| Overview of the Text. Three Vignettes | |
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| Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps | |
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| Etiology: Causal Factors and Pathology | |
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| Defining Developmental Disabilities | |
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| Conditions Included in Developmental Disabilities | |
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| Developmental Delay, Developmental "Psychopathology, and Dual Diagnoses | |
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| Developmental Disabilities in a Life-Span Context | |
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| Social Attitudes about Persons with Disabilities | |
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| Prevalence and Incidence of Developmental Disabilities | |
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| The Person and the Professions. Chapter Summary | |
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| Normal Prenatal Development. Human Development Is a Continuous Process | |
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| Determinants of the Neonate's Health | |
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| Prenatal Development | |
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| The Birth Process | |
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| The Mother, the Neonate, Postnatal Monitoring, and Care | |
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| Genotype and Phenotype. Chapter Summary | |
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| Normal Postnatal Development | |
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| Physical and Sensory Development | |
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| Brain Development | |
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| Cognitive, Perceptual, and Language Development | |
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| Emotional Development | |
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| Social Development | |
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| Normal Developmental Tasks: Social Norms, Expectancies, and Roles | |
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| Growth beyond the "Developmental" Years. Chapter Summary | |
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| Endogenous Etiological Factors in Disabilities: Genetic Defects | |
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| Birth Defects | |
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| Polygenic and Multifactorial Transmission | |
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| Genetic and Chromosomal Mutations. Chapter Summary | |
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| Endogenous Etiological Factors in Disabilities: "Chromosomal Anomalies." | |
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| Chromosomal Anomalies in the Autosomes | |
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| X-Linked Genetic Defects and Chromosomal Anomalies | |
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| Neural Tube Defects (NTDs). Chapter Summary | |
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| Exogenous Etiologic Factors in Disabilities: Prenatal Origins | |
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| Prenatal Environmental Factors in Birth Defects | |
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| Teratogens | |
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| Exogenous Etiological Factors in Disabilities Prenatal Origins (Continued) | |
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| Environmental Hazards of a Passive Nature | |
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| Maternal Conditions | |
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| Other Prenatal Factors | |
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| A "MultiHit" Model of Neurological Handicap. Chapter Summary | |
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| Exogenous Etiological Factors in Developmental Disabilities: Perinatal and Postnatal Environmental Origins. Etiologies and Disabilities. Chapter Summary | |
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| Mental Retardation (Intellectual Disabilities) | |
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| The Nature of Intelligence | |
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| Intelligence and MR | |
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| Heterogeneity among Persons with Mental Retardation | |
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| Multidimensional Diagnosis and Service "Planning for Mental Retardation | |
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| Diagnosis of Mental Retardation | |
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| Identifying Strengths, Weaknesses, and Service Needs | |
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| Determining Needed Supports and Support Intensities | |
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| Some Important Generalizations | |
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| Social Factors in Mental Retardation | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Social Determinants in Mental Retardation: "The Active Socialization Hypothesis | |
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| Socialization | |
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| Positions and Roles: Social Structure and Personal Function | |
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| Dimensions of Social Positions | |
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| Dimensions of Social Roles | |
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| Social Role Development and Personal Identity | |
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| Can Social Role Theory Inform Us about Mental Retardation? | |
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| MR Social Role Enactments | |
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| Tacit Knowledge, Practical Intelligence, "and the Zone of Proximal Development | |
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| Implications for Research and Service. Chapter Summary | |
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| Autistic Spectrum Disorders | |
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| Three Cases | |
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| Pervasive Developmental Disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorders | |
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| Autistic Disorder | |
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| Other Autistic Spectrum Disorders | |
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| Diagnosis of Autism | |
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| Population Estimates of Autism | |
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| The Final Common Pathway Model | |
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| Autism and Theory of Mind. Education, Training, and Treatment | |
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| Prognosis and the Older Person with Autism | |
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| Some Comments on History. Chapter Summary | |
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| Seizure Disorders | |
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| Seizures and Epilepsy | |
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| Etiologies of Seizures and the Epilepsies | |
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| Incidence and Prevalence of Epilepsy | |
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| Major Effects of Epilepsy on the Person | |
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| Epi | |