These are the two things that can be developed through individualized education, job training, and specialized therapies.
What are talents and abilities.
100
Somewhere between 1-3% of Americans are diagnosed with this condition
What is Mental Retardation
100
This is a disability that has two basic ways to be classified.
What is cognitive disability.
100
These are the number of levels of mental retardation.
What is four.
200
The year the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed.
What is 1990.
200
This is the difference between Mental Retardation and Mental Illness.
What is Mental Retardation is NOT a mental illness.
200
This is when the diagnosis of mental retardation is generally made.
What is before 18 years of age.
200
List two common causes of cognitive disability.
What are genetic condition, problems during pregnancy, complications during birth, and health problems.
200
This is the highest level of mental retardation and the mental age is between 8-12 yrs of age.
What is Mild.
300
This is the year the American's with Disiabilities Act was amended.
What is 2008
300
This is how having cognitive and intellectual disabilities, such as mental retardation, affects individuals.
What is the affects of these disabilities vary considerably among people.
300
List two causes of mental retardation.
What are genetic, pregnancy complications, birth problems, early childhood problems, environmental factors, etc. (There are more than 200 identified and many others suspected)
300
These are some types of accommodations that help cognitive disabled students in the classroom.
What are a reader for tests/quizzes, breaking tasks up into smaller tasks, clear and accurate content presented in multiple formats (written, picutes, and audio)
300
These are the two levels where the highest percentage of people are classified
What is mild and moderate
400
This is the medical practice that was used historically and into the late 20th Century on people with mental retardation in institutional care.
What is Sterilization
400
This is whether a child with mental retardation has to have other disabilities.
What is No. A child may or may not have other disabilities.
400
This is how the diagnosis for mental retardation is made.
What is testing cognitive abilities and adaptive skills
400
True or False: As many as 3 out of every 100 people in the US has a cognitive disability (or mental retardation).
What is True
400
This is the level that a person has a mental age of 5-8 yrs old and they cannot learn academic subjects in school
What is moderate
500
This is the IQ usually associated with being mentally retarded.
What is 70 or lower
500
This is whether there is medication to help treat a child who is mentally retarded.
What is No. There is no medication to treat mental retardation.
500
This is a verbal test used on children ages 6-16 yrs old that helps to make the Full Scale IQ score.
What is the Weschsler Intelligence Scale for Children - III (WISC-III)
500
True or False: One in every 5 children (age 6-21) who need special education services has some form of cognitive disability or mental retardation.
What is False, one in 10 children.
500
These are the levels that require life-long care and supervision and are often confined to institutions