Educational Psychology / Unit 8 EDP 0716 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Intellectual Disability
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The idea
Intellectual disability involves limits in both intellectual functioning and adaptive functioning, the everyday skills of living, and affects about one percent of people.
In practice
A student with a low IQ score but strong everyday skills does not meet the definition.
Where people slip
Formerly called mental retardation, the accepted term now is intellectual disability, and severity is judged by adaptive functioning.
Your place on the trail
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