Mild Intellectual Disabilities

Description of Intellectual Disabilities

100

True or False: The term developmental disabilities attributes to other impairments such as physical or mental impairments.

True. 

200

What age does the disability originate before?

Age of 18

300

What did the term Intellectual Disabilities originally replace? 

Mental retardation

400

Adaptive behaviour is thought to be comprised of the following three types if skills.

Conceptual, Social, and practical skills.

Characteristics of Students with MID

100

What precent of the general population has mild intellectual disabilities?

2-3 %

200

What type of learning do students with MID typically excel at?

Experiential Learning.

300

Name a characteristic that someone with MID may exhibit. 

Delays in physical: fine motor coordination

Cognitive: short term memory , attention, ability to generalize and recognize similarities and differences, comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, and problem solving 

Language and social development.

400

Define: The exception, based on previous experiences with a lack of control, that all one's efforts will lead to failure.

Learned Helplessness

Implications for Learning in the Classroom

100

True or False: Can reciprocal teaching help improve reading comprehension for adolescents with MID. 

True. 

200

Name a way to help students with MID.

Colour coding notebooks, reducing choices, and highlighting key text. Extending deadlines. Lower reading levels. auto taped texts, manipulative that appeal to the sense, games to practise important concepts. 

300

What is an example of an alternative assessment procedure for students with MID.

Oral exams, portfolio, or interviews

400

Name the two environmental stimulations that support cognitive development.

Sensory and Intellectual Stimulation. 

Implications for Social and Career

100

True or False: Students without disabilities experienced positive effects as a function of inclusion.

True.

200

People with MID are disadvantaged in a formal classroom setting. Which environment would they generally thrive in?

Community where they can use their life experience.

300

A survey of adults in Ontario suggests that most respondents believe people with intellectual disabilities would not ______ affect the image of workplaces, but most thought lack of employment training for people with ID was a major obstacle to increased inclusion.

Negatively.

400

Define: The social value and policy that persons with disabilities are tneirtled to full participation in all aspects of Canadian society, including education. 

Inclusion.