Borderline intellectual functioning

his intellectual disability under Atkins”. Moore has been on death row for 36 years in solitary confinement, where he is alone in a cell for over 22 hours a day. Moore’s case raises issues…

Fragile X syndrome is defined as a genetic condition that causes intellectual disabilities, behavioral and learning challenges and various physical characteristics. This syndrome, being a genetically heritable disease, is X-linked. This makes the disease more commonly observed in males than females, about two to one. Males have roughly a one in four thousand chance of getting the syndrome and females have about a one in eight thousand chance (Bostrom). Some general characteristics can be seen as…

The claimant was an 18-year-old man. Alleged disability: autism, learning disability, behavioral problems, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His mother reported that he needed reminders to take a bath and to take his psychotropic medications. He had difficulty with memory, concentration, completing tasks, understanding and following instructions, and getting along with others because “some people don’t understand his condition.” He had difficulty handling stress and…

suggested taking a semester off for her brain to heal and Shannon wants to know how her current intellectual functioning using the WAIS-IV and WJ-III. Shannon’s Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ= 84) was in the low average. Her Verbal Comprehension (VC=76) was borderline and Perceptual Reasoning (PR=91) was average. Her Working Memory (WM=59) was extremely low and Processing Speed (PS= 76) was borderline. The WM, PS, and VC affected Shannon’s FSIQ low average. WM is lower than PS and VC;…

My model of understanding for information processing is a board game. I took a few of my favorite boards games that I played numerous times growing up and I combined them into one game that depicts how I see information processing. Explanation of model: My model, a board game, is set up like a Shoots and Ladders board. The board as a whole represents the entire information process. There is a spinner for the board game and the spinner represents the stimulus in information processing. The…

Through clinical agreement, it had been stated that autism should be diagnosed as early on as possible so that intervention can be implemented at the youngest age possible. However, there was very little evidence for this statement, indicating that the effect of age at onset of early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) program was not in fact proven (Fernell et al., 2011). With that, there are many issues overall that need to be researched, as well as resolved, before general…

As a measure of current general intellectual functioning, the KBIT-2 was administered and yielded a Verbal Score = 86±5; a Nonverbal Score = 55±5; and an IQ Composite Score = 66±4. The composite score falls within the very low or borderline educational classification at the 01st percentile rank per national age based norms and needs to be viewed with caution. Due to Hunter’s struggles with focus and difficulty attending to auditory instruction, his nonverbal score is felt to be an under…

Joseph’s WAIS-IV profile suggests general intellectual ability in the low average range with significant difference between verbal and non-verbal abilities. Joseph’s Verbal Comprehension Index score was marked with inter subtest scatter. His lexical knowledge and knowledge of acquired facts was in…

this patriarchal dominion? The philosophers Simone De Beauvoir, John Locke, and Sigmund Freud had quite strong and yet diverse views on this issue. Where De Beauvoir and Locke acknowledged a woman's rights as a human being and a fully capable and functioning member of society; Freud, instead, supported what he believed to be the "natural" state of humanity and in turn the "natural" state of women.…

Student D attends a Middle School in Columbus Ga. The school is located on the Northside of town and where many military families resided. There are approximately 500 students that consist of Latino, Asian, Black, White, Hawaii/Pacific Island and Multi-Racial . The students are diverse and have all socioeconomic backgrounds. It is located behind an elementary school and across from a shopping center. The SWD demographics has about 19% are 6th graders, 14% are 7th graders and 22% , 8 graders.…