SPED 2231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Intellectual Disability, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Chromosome Abnormality
8 Jan 2019
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Celebrate them for who they are, not what they can do. Multiple disabilities and severe disabilities interchangeably to describe students who need intensive support to address their. Idea states that multiple disabilities are defined by concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability and blindness, emotional or behavioral disorder) The combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated by solely addressing one of the impairments. 2011 - 2012 apprx 2. 1% of sped students were classified as having multiple disabilities. Students with multiple disabilities generally have specific characteristics related to their intellectual functioning, adaptive skills, motor development, sensory functioning and communication skills. Some may be 2 standard deviations below the mean but others may be average or even in the gifted range. Iq tests are inappropriate for those with multiple disabilities. Students with md are usually not included in the normative samples of standardized intelligence tests.
