Training-Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请旨在为迈阿密大学的应用发展心理学培训计划（ADPT）提供资金。该方案的重点是发展有关与发育残疾有关的心理社会风险因素的知识，特别是那些在贫困中长大的儿童特有的风险因素。虽然ADPT为主要综合征（如自闭症）的集中研究提供了机会，但主要重点是了解较低程度的发育迟缓或残疾（例如，学习障碍、轻度MR、语言发育迟缓），在有显著发育障碍的人群中占很大比例，而且比例还在不断增长。许多ADPT研究活动发生在医院，学校和社区内的私人机构。这些研究生培训经验使学生能够在我国大都市地区越来越多地遇到的各种多民族和多元文化环境中有效运作。ADPT教师是多学科的，成员来自心理学，儿科和教育。培训的重点包括使用流行病学方法来量化风险和减少风险，开发早期识别发育残疾儿童的新技术，以及开发新的干预方法，以减轻多种风险因素、生物和社会对发育的影响，以及评估对患有智力迟钝和发育障碍的婴儿和儿童以及这些发育问题的高危人群进行早期干预的有效性。ADPT可利用的设施多种多样，包括Mailman儿童发展中心、琳达雷儿童中心（一个社区设施，致力于研究和培训因接触药物以及虐待和忽视的相关影响而有患DD风险的婴幼儿）以及自闭症和相关残疾中心（为自闭症伯格综合征提供研究和培训机会）。和其他相关的残疾。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks funding for the Applied Developmental Psychology Training program (ADPT) at the University of Miami. This program focuses on the development of knowledge concerning the psychosocial risk factors associated with developmental disabilities, especially those risk factors endemic to children raised in poverty. While the ADPT provides opportunities for concentrated studies in major syndromes, such as autism, the main emphasis is on understanding lesser degrees of retardation or disability (e.g., learning disabilities, mild MR, language delay) that account for a large and growing proportion of people with significant developmental difficulties. Many of the ADPT research activities occur in hospitals, schools and private agencies within the community. These graduate training experiences equip students to function effectively in a wide variety of multi-ethnic and multicultural settings that are increasingly encountered in metropolitan areas of our country. The ADPT faculty is multidisciplinary, with members from Psychology, Pediatrics and Education. The focus of the training ranges from the use of epidemiological methodology to quantify risk and risk reduction to the development of new techniques for early identification of children with developmental disabilities and the development of new intervention approaches toward ameliorating the effects of multiple risk factors, biological and social insults to development, and the assessment of the effectiveness of early interventions for infants and children with mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and those at high risk for these developmental problems. The facilities available to ADPT are diverse and include the Mailman Center for Child Development, the Linda Ray Children's Center a community based facility dedicated to research and training with infants and toddlers who are at risk for DD through substance exposure and the allied effects of abuse and neglect, and the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, which provides opportunities for research and training on autism Asperger's syndrome, and other related disabilities.