Adaptive Behavior: Diagnosis Of Intellectual Disability

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Adaptive Behavior describes the performance of daily activities required for personal and social sufficiency (Black & Flower, 2016).Assessment of adaptive behavior is essential for making a diagnosis of Intellectual Disability and very informative in the diagnostic evaluation for a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the correspondence between the Vineland-2 and Vineland-3. We hypothesized that the Vineland-2 and Vineland -3 will be highly correlated and the Vineland-3 will produce lower scores for more intellectually impaired subjects.

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