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Intellectual Disabilities (Environmental Circumstances lead to…
Intellectual Disabilities
AAIDD Definition
Disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills.
AAIDD Has two main points
Intellectual disability involves problems in adaptive behavior just in intellectual function
intellectual functioning an d adaptive behavior of a person with intellectual disabilities can be improved
Intellectual Disabilities make life skills harder
I know when I see it
skills needed to live
two types of skills
Domestic skills
Cooking, do laundry and manage a budget
Community Skills
health care, transportation
lead to residential institutions
helps someone with disabilities
close to family centered planning
focus on one person
consumer driven model
students make own decisions
People are there to help them along the way to meet goals
Adaptive Behavior help
services that are provided
an outcome on students success
adaptive behavior scale
measures adaptive behavior
daily living skills
socialization
motor skills
maladaptive behavior
prevalence helps disabilities
IQ test scores are low
assumption of intelligence
figures what students are intellectually disabled
lower prevalence rates cause
increased adaptive behavior
increased label students
increased propensity
Major goal of disabilites is
self-determination
can be self regulated
act in a self-realized manner
particular culture of an individual
lets person with disabilities to have children of own.
services to help them parent
Environmental Circumstances lead to disabilities
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
fetal alcohol syndrome
low birth weight
postnatal causes as well
meningitis
encephalitics
Students with disabilities have difficult with academics
one way to help students is by
Functional academics
helps students with
reading
math
daily life skills
using computer
filling out job applications as well
with disabilites it is hard for students to keep control
of self- regulation
students behavior to regulate own behavior
employ strategies to help
most of the times students will help with problem solving
Rosa's law made the new name
law replaced the name of mental retardation
to intellectual disabilities
named after nine year old
had down syndrome
family fought for the change of the name