Key Terms
Statistics
Causes
Characteristics
Miscellaneous
100
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning (IQ), existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Mental Retardation
100
This percentage of people with mental retardation are considered to have Mild Mental Retardation
What is 85%
100
Exposure to this can lead to MR in children
What is radiation
100
Children with MR generally have a _____ learning rate compared to other students
What is slower
100
Charts, graphs, pictures, are all examples of ______
What is visual aids
200
a persons ability to learn and apply life skills in ways that enable him or her to live independently
What is Adaptive behavior (or functioning)
200
BLANK out of 100 people meet the criteria for Mental Retardation.
What is 2
200
Doing this while pregnant may lead to MR in the child (Hint there are 3 answers)
What is smoking, drug abuse, and/or drinking
200
Limited: attention, organizational skills, questioning behaviors, direction following, monitoring of time, and other school coping skills are all ____ types of characteristics
What is academic
200
A delay in this may interrupt the connection between cause and effect in the student's mind.
What is providing feedback
300
a score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence.
What is IQ
300
An IQ score of _____ or less can qualify a person for Mental Retardation.
What is 70
300
the two poisons can lead to mental retardation
What is Lead and Blood
300
a limited _________ is a common communicative characteristic of a child with MR
What is speaking vocabulary
300
What are the four levels of Mental Retardation
What is mild, moderate, severe, and profound
400
part of a student’s IEP and addresses the skills and supportive services required outside of school and in the future.
What is ITP or Individual transition plan
400
____% of all cases can be linked to heredity
What is 5%
400
poor _____ during pregnancy can lead to mental retardation
What is nutrition
400
this type of thinking is very limited and is characterized by immediate experience
What is concrete thinking
400
a person with an IQ of 20-40 is considered to have_______
What is severe mental retardation
500
breaking complex skills into component parts to establish an appropriate teaching sequence and to decide which skill to teach first.
What is Task Analysis
500
Down’s Syndrome a condition in which the ______ set of chromosomes is a triplet rater than a pair
What is 21st
500
this defect in chromosomes can cause a birth defects or mental retardation
What is fragile X syndrome
500
Name 2 potential behavior problems teacher might face when working with a child with MR
What is Tardiness, complaints of illness, classroom disruptiveness, social isolation, inappropriate activity
500
this provides Multi level reading materials with visuals
What is Star Child