PSYC 3505 Lecture 3: LECTURE 3
23 Feb 2016
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Aaidd definition: significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviour which covers many everyday social and practical skills originates before age 18. The collection of conceptual, social and practical skills that people have learned so they can function in their everyday lives. Along with iq, adaptive behaviors are taken into consideration when professionals make a determination of intellectual disability. Underlying principles intellectual disabilities involve problems in adaptive behaviour, not just intellectual functioning the intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour of a person with intellectual disabilities can be improved. Levels of support range from intermittent to pervasive depending on need. Can provide information about the learning potential of students. Reasons for caution in interpreting iq scores: Service delivery models: working memory, language development, self-regulation (metacognition, social development, motivation (learned helplessness, autonomy, self-regulation, psychological empowerment, self-realization, systematic instruction, instruction in real life settings with real materials, functional behaviour assessment (fba) and positive.
