Common Traits
1) 2 or more standard deviations below the mean on a standardized intelligence test
2) Significant difficulty with tasks of everyday living (adaptive behavior)
3) Deficits must occur during the developmental period (before 18)
What are the 3 criterion to qualify for an Intellectual disability?
1) The Wechsler Intelligence scale (WISC-V)
2) The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
What are standardized intelligence tests?
Expecting failure regardless of the efforts.
What is learned helplessness?
These are the most useful parts of reading, writing, math and science for students.
What are functional academics?
Parents can teach this skill by actively supporting their child to engage in the decision making process.
What is self-determination?
The collection of conceptual, social and practical skills that have been learned by people to function in their everyday lives.
What is adaptive behavior?
1)ABS-S:2 (Adaptive Behavior Scale-School)
2) DAB (Diagnostic Adaptive Behavior Scale)
3)VABS (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale)
What are adaptive behavior assessments?
The ability to remember one thing while performing another task.
What is working memory?
Teaching these types of skills to students with intellectual disabilities can help them become motivated, self-reliant problem solvers.
What is self-determination?
Parents can support their student's functional goals by using this at home just like it is used at school.
What are task trackers?
What are students with severe or profound intellectual disabilities?
According to this document, in order to be eligible for special education services under the category of Intellectual Disability, all 4 criterion listed must be met.
What is the ODE Statement of Eligibility Form?
Students with ID need much more of this in order to learn new knowledge and skills compared to their nondisabled peers.
What is repetition?
There needs to be a balance between these two curricula when teaching students with intellectual disabilities.
What are the academic curriculum and the functional curriculum?
By providing information about their child's interests, parents can help teachers provide a meaningful _____
________.
What is functional curriculum?