In the 1950s, Samuel Kirk discovered that a number of persons had been misclassified with intellectual disability at the Wayne County Training School in Northville, Michigan. Kirk gave all of the following reasons for the misclassification except?
a. The IQ scores of these individuals were too low.
b. Extraordinary reading progress was made as a result of intensive remediation.
c. Gains in
reading made by these individuals were rarely made by students withintellectual disability.
d. Many of these individuals became self-supporting after leaving the trainingschool.
A
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