1. In your own words, name the three criteria that comprise the IDEA definition for intellectual disabilities and give some details for each one. There are three major standard for intellectual disability: major limits in academic operation, considerable limits in adaptive actions, and onset earlier than the age of 18.
The IQ test is a key device in evaluating academic performance, which is the psychological ability for knowledge, way of thinking, problem solving, and so on. A test score under or roughly 70 or as high as 7 show an inadequacy in academic operation.
Other tests determine the limits in adaptive behavior, which face three types of abilities:
• Conceptual skills—language and literacy;
• Social skills—interpersonal skills, …show more content…
People raise in enhance background should score near the top of their response series. The concept of reaction range can give details how two people with alike inherited prospective can be rather different in aptitude.
3. The American Association for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities recently endorsed the use of the general term intellectual disabilities in place of the previous term mental retardation. Explain the rationale for this name change.
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) advances defining intellectual disability as a health situation is essential to hold on to it in ICD, with important suggestion for health procedure and right to use for health services. The Working Group proposes replacing mental retardation with intellectual developmental disorders, defined as “a group of developmental conditions characterized by significant impairment of cognitive functions, which are associated with limitations of learning, adaptive behaviors and skills”.
4. Give an example of how you as a teacher might support an adolescent or young adult with ID in transitioning to adult life in each of the following areas:
a. Employment
b. Independent living
c. Use of leisure
The IQ test is a key device in evaluating academic performance, which is the psychological ability for knowledge, way of thinking, problem solving, and so on. A test score under or roughly 70 or as high as 7 show an inadequacy in academic operation.
Other tests determine the limits in adaptive behavior, which face three types of abilities:
• Conceptual skills—language and literacy;
• Social skills—interpersonal skills, …show more content…
People raise in enhance background should score near the top of their response series. The concept of reaction range can give details how two people with alike inherited prospective can be rather different in aptitude.
3. The American Association for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities recently endorsed the use of the general term intellectual disabilities in place of the previous term mental retardation. Explain the rationale for this name change.
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) advances defining intellectual disability as a health situation is essential to hold on to it in ICD, with important suggestion for health procedure and right to use for health services. The Working Group proposes replacing mental retardation with intellectual developmental disorders, defined as “a group of developmental conditions characterized by significant impairment of cognitive functions, which are associated with limitations of learning, adaptive behaviors and skills”.
4. Give an example of how you as a teacher might support an adolescent or young adult with ID in transitioning to adult life in each of the following areas:
a. Employment
b. Independent living
c. Use of leisure