Profound And Multiple Learning Disabilities
This quiz is useful to summarise and evaluate your current knowledge of profound and multiple learning disabilities.
- 1.According to DSM-IV (ABA, 1994) what percentage of the learning disabled population have profound and multiple disabilities?
- A.
1-2%
- B.
2-4%
- C.
5-10%
- D.
10-15%
- E.
17-20%
- 2.Who from the following could be deemed to have PMLD?
- A.
An individual with severe learning disability and a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder
- B.
An individual with athetoid cerebral palsy
- C.
An individual with limited mobility, epilepsy and severe learning disabilities
- D.
An individual with spastic hemiplegia, epilepsy and profound learning disabilities
- 3.A client requires medical treatment, however the person requires consent to treatment. How could you seek consent for an individual with PMLD?
- A.
Talk to staff, next of kin and family members and make a best interests decision
- B.
Ask next of kin to accompany the client for their appointment so they can consent on behalf of the client
- C.
Assess the individuals capacity to consent, and make a best interests decision if the individual is deemed to lack capacity
- 4.Acording to Scope (2009), what are the prevalence rates of babies that are born with cerebral palsy?
- A.
1 in 200
- B.
1 in 300
- C.
1 in 400
- D.
1 in 500
- E.
1 in 600
- 5.Effective communication is essential when supporting individuals with learning disabilities (Bakken et al, 2002), however which of the following is most recommended for people with limited communicative ability?
- A.
Intensive Interaction (II)
- B.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- C.
Total Communication
- D.
Makaton, BLS or other Sign Language
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