Abstract
Definition of Disability,Causes of Intellectual Impairment,Evolving Terminology for Intellectual Impairment,The Bell Curve and IQ: Levels of Intellectual Disability,Cognitive Developmental Thresholds,Intellectual Disability and the Brain: Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence.Neuroplasticity in Brain Development,Developmental Perspective on Intellectual Disability: Cognitive Developmental Thresholds,Moral Development,Implications of Recognizing Personhood and Autonomy,Participation in Research
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 55-73 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405198288 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 18 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR)
- Attitudes toward intellectual disability - compassionate concern to ostracism and neglect
- Bell Curve and IQ - levels of intellectual disability
- Cognitive developmental thresholds
- Developmental perspective - on emergence of moral personhood
- Implications of recognizing personhood and autonomy.
- Intellectual disability and brain fluid and crystallized intelligence
- Involuntary euthanasia in Germany - eliminating "life unworthy of life
- Perinatal causes, linked to birth injury - physical causes or metabolic ones
- Persons diagnosed with intellectual disability - obstacles in one's lifetime and limitations in adaptive abilities
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities