SPCE 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intellectual Disability, Adaptive Behavior, Fragile X Syndrome
22 Sep 2016
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We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Having a disability doesn"t stop me from doing anything. benjamin snow, grade 8: benjamin should have the equal opportunities as typical students, we agree with benjamin; a disability does not define a person. Idea definition: significantly sub-average intellectual functioning, deficits in adaptive behavior, manifested during the developmental period, between birth and age 18. Aaidd definition (2002: intellectual disability is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills, this disability originates before age of 18. Cognitive disability: article 7 rule 41 section 3, occur during developmental period, characterized by limitations in cognitive functioning, demonstrated through limitations in adaptive behavior, adversely affects educational performance, must impact educational performance, compare it to federal/ aaidd definitions. Causes: many remain unidentified (the arc, 2002, aamr organizes by time of onset, prenatal-before birth, perinatal-during birth, postnatal-after birth.
