Intellectual Disability

Question 1

Key Features: Diagnostic Criteria

Answer 1

• IQ less than 70
• significant limitations in 2 or more adaptive behaviors
  
  • Conceptual Skills
  • Social Skills
  • Practical Life Skills
• Limitations apparent before age 18

Question 2

Subtypes

Answer 2

• Down Syndrome
• Fragile X Syndrome
• William’s Syndrome

Question 3

Subtypes: Down Syndrome

Answer 3

• Form
• Content
• Use

Question 4

Subtypes: Fragile X Syndrome

Answer 4

• Speech
• Expressive
  -Receptive
  -Use

Question 5

Subtypes: William’s Syndrome

Answer 5

• Speech
• Expressive
• Receptive
• Use

Question 6

Etiology: Risk Factors

Answer 6

• Timing
  -Prenatal, Perinatal, Postnatal
• Type
  -Biomedical, Social, Behavioral, Educational
• TBI
  -Genetic Abnormalities

Question 7

Assessment

Answer 7

• Norm-Referenced (Limitations)
• Criterion-Referenced
  -LSA, Discourse Analysis (Social Communication)
• Classroom/Workplace Assessments
  -Communication Skills Inventory
• Functional Assessment (If Needed)
• AAC (If Needed)
  -Reading/Writing (If Needed)

Question 8

Intervention Approaches

Answer 8

• Functional Communication Training
• It’s Fun Program