Psychology 2043A/B Chapter 7: chapter 12

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2043A/B
• Professor: Esther Goldberg

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The term includes students with significant impairments in intellectual, motor, and/or social functioning. No single widely accepted definition of severe disabilities exist. According to the system once used to classify levels of intellectual disabilities, a person obtaining iq scores of 35-40 would be considered to have severe intellectual disabilities. Justen defined students with severe disabilities as those individuals age 21 and younger who are functioning at a general developmental level of half or less than the level which would be expected . Today, special educators realized that developmental levels have little to do with the disability. Tash (the association for persons with severe handicaps). A definition that delineates precisely who is and is not to be identified by the term severe disabilities is unnecessary. Second, the tremendous diversity of learning and physical challenges that these students experience renders any single set of descriptors inadequate. Many do not speak; unresponsive to sensory stimuli.