FRHD 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metacognition, Self-Determination, Supported Living
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Immature reaction to environmental stimuli and below average social and academic performance. Subaverage intellectual ability present from birth or early infancy (ex. medicine) Association of intellectual and developmental disabilities in 2007. American association of mental retardation changed its name to american. Some professionals still use term mental retardation . Some confuse intellectual disability with developmental delay. Delay means there is an expectation that the child can catch up to their peers. Significant limitation in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) 70 or 75 on a test of mental ability (iq - intelligence quotient) 2 or > limitations in adaptive skills (conceptual, social or practical skills) Conceptual, social and practical skills that people have learned so that they can. Activities of daily living (the act of eating food) instrumental activities of daily living (going to the grocery store, cooking your food) Idea that many diagnosed with an intellectual disability have mild id population learning disabilities instead of intellectual disability.