What are the criteria for defining intellectual disabilities? What are the implications of these criteria for assessment and re-evaluation over the lifespan?
What will be an ideal response?
The current federal definition includes the following:
• Significantly sub average intellectual functioning.
• Concurrent limitations of adaptive behavior skills (such as communication, home living, social skills).
• Manifestation prior to age 18 (that is, during the developmental period).
Students may describe mild, moderate, and severe/profound intellectual disabilities and the controversy over these labels. Students should address the idea that identification may change over time (for example, from mild intellectual disabilities to learning disability).
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The _________________ is characterized by sharing of expertise through frequent, ongoing communication with all caregivers and training these caregivers to implement interventions
a. multidisciplinary approach b. transdisciplinary approach c. interdisciplinary approach
Which one of the following is NOT recommended by the authors of our text?
(a) Keep foot traffic in the classroom to a minimum. (b) Constantly be aware of all activity in your classroom. (c) When necessary, punish by lowering the students' academic grades. (d) Maintain the pacing of lessons so that all students feel some pressure.
Speech refers to producing sounds, while language refers to communicating
(a) ideas, (b) sentences, (c) graphics, (d) parts of speech.
Explain the main phases of education reform in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s
What will be an ideal response?