RP & SE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Intellectual Disability, Adaptive Behavior, Fragile X Syndrome

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People with intellectual disability frequently encounter prejudice, ignorance, and discrimination because people identify them as different. Mentally retarded: pejorative, stigmatizing, highly offensive label: used to be identification, now intellectual disability, october 2010, legislation was enacted that removed terms mental retardation and mentally retarded from federal health, education, and labor statutes. Intellectual disabilities are studied by many different professionals: beneficial but may lead to problems of conceptual and definitional clarity. 1961 aaidd definition: subaverage general intellectual functioning with originated during developmental period and is associated with impairments in adaptive behavior: subaverage general intellectual functioning: defined as intelligence quotient (iq) > one standard deviation below the mean distribution of set of scores relative to mean. Standard deviation: descriptive statistic that expresses variability and distribution of set of scores relative to mean. Below 85 or 84: developmental period: birth 16. Impairments in adaptive behavior: establishes dual criteria for identifying someone as having intellectual disability.

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