Misconceptions
Intellectual disability is contagious.
What is false? An intellectual disability does not spread by any type of contact.
(White Swan Foundation)
A bill signed in 2010 that eliminated the terms mental retardation and mentally retarded from the federal legal code.
What is Rosa’s Law?
According to the DSM-5, this many standard deviations below the mean is required for an ID diagnosis
What is 2?
This skill domain includes tasks such as self-care, use of money, and safety.
What are practical skills?
Sensory and Motor Disorders, Language Difficulties, ADHD and ODD, and Learning Disabilities are categories of
What are differential diagnoses?
Most people with ID have a severe intellectual disability.
What is false?
What is 85% of people with intellectual disabilities are only mildly impaired. Most have minor disabilities that don't get in the way of playing sports, being educated at inclusive schools, and being employed?
(Special Olympics)
The act that grants children with disabilities free public education and related resources.
What is IDEA, or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004)?
These are the three most common intelligence tests used when assessing for ID
What are WISC-V, WAIS-IV, and SB-5?
These individuals are interviewed to assess adaptive behavior
What is a third party (parent/caregiver)?
Comorbid mental disorders in individuals with ID can have a(n) _____ presentation than in those in the general population
What is atypical?
Students with intellectual disabilities cannot be successful in the general education setting.
What is students with ID can be successful with their needed support system?
(Kennedy Krieger Institute)
This text took until 2013 to officially change their language from mental retardation to intellectual disabilities.
What is the DSM-5?
Clinicians should choose an intelligence test that minimizes this type of skill
What is access skills?
These are two of the main tools for assessing adaptive behavior
What are the ABAS-II and the Vineland?
The risk of multimorbidity ______ with age and severity of ID
What is increases?
Adults with intellectual disabilities should not live independently.
What is some adults with ID can live highly independent lives while others require varying levels of support?
(Friends of Cyrus)
In 2006, this percentage of states still used the term mental retardation in their state-level guidelines.
What is 53%?
This overall intelligence score is better to use than it's counterpart when assessing ID, according to an article presented
What is FSIQ?
These are the three domains of adaptive functioning
What are conceptual, social, practical?
To determine the supports needed a clinician should consider this
What are current limitations and strengths across domains?
Intellectual Disability is synonymous with mental illness.
What is false?
(Friends of Cyrus)
In relation to special education, these entities have control over labeling, identifying, and determining eligibility criteria.
What are individual states?
These are some ways to motivate a client during intelligence testing.
What are provide positive reinforcement, frequent breaks, and behavior redirection?
Deficits in adaptive functioning are caused by deficits in intellectual functioning
What is false?
Approximately this many cases of ID will have identifiable causes
What is 2/3?