Patrick's Intellectual Disability

• Patrick is a 16 years-old boy and a 10th grade student in High School with a mild intellectual disability. According to his parents, when he was three years old, he had a stroke after a surgery that paralyzed part of this brain. Due to an intense and multidisciplinary therapy, he could overcome most of his mobility impairments, but it still affects his intellectual abilities, specially related to language skills. His mother also perceive that Patrick performs better when he has additional time to analyze information. Despite his disability, Patrick can read and write, however, but not at the same level as students of his age, his IQ Verbal score is 55. He is more motivated to write when the assignment involves a topic that he enjoys, such as animals, ocean and planets. While reading, he shows interest in …show more content…
Additionally, he has deficits in short-term memory and verbal reasoning that impact his ability to comprehend grade-level resources, to make inferences, to clearly express his opinions and to understand complex tasks. Patrick is very friendly and like to help his friends and classmates. Nevertheless, because of his short-term memory impairment, his classmates often perceive him as someone that is not interested. For this reason, he has a journal where he can write important things, but teachers need to remind him to keep it updated. Based on the IEP, one of his goals is achieve High School reading levels by the end of the year, being able (1) to recognize the central idea in a text, (2) to analyze its content and (3) to summarize the ideas in a consistent way. The expect results for these goals are 75% of accuracy in 2 of 3 trials. Regarding to his writing skills, he is not independent to create his own texts, being necessary to have a teacher assistant to help him to organize his ideas and write properly. His goals for writing on the IEP consists in achieving independence, learning tools that are necessary for his academic success by the end of High