Special Populatins: Intellectual Disability

Question 1

What is an intellectual disability?

Answer 1

1. significant limitations in intellectual functioning (IQ test)
2. adaptive behavior
3. disability originates before age 18

Question 2

IQ test looks at

Answer 2

reasoning, processing, and new information

Question 3

adaptive behavior (conceptual, social, and practical skills)

Answer 3

things that help you get through everyday life/social situations, practical situations
-conceptual skills, language and literacry, money, self directions, exectuve functioning

Question 4

Are ID and Developmental disability sononomous?

Answer 4

NO!!!

Question 5

Intelectual disability falls under the umbrella of

Answer 5

Developmental disability

Question 6

A test score between 70 and 75 points to an ID on the IQ test but we also have to test what before you can make a decision?

Answer 6

Adaptive behavior

Question 7

Intelligence test (Stanford Binet)

Answer 7

IQ tests look at various types of verbal and nonverbal reasoning

• nonverbal would be finding object that goes in box an dpointing
• putting block on car moving away and toward would be verbal because have to know words “toward” and “away”

Question 8

Adaptive Skills

Answer 8

1. conceptual
2. social
3. practical

Question 9

conceptual adaptive skills

Answer 9

language and literacy, money, time, # concepts, self direction

Question 10

social adaptive skill

Answer 10

interpersonal skills, social responsibility, self-esteem, gulibility, naieve, social problem solvig, ability to follow rules/obey laws

Question 11

practical adaptive skills

Answer 11

activities of daily living, occupational skills, healthcare, travel, schedules, safety, use of money, use of telephone

Question 12

4 very important things to think about for adaptive skills

Answer 12

1. age related
2. culture
3. modifiable
4. moderately stable-can role play to teach about money
5. defined by performance-not just knowing what to do; crossing the street example

Question 13

Capacity triangle includes what 3 things

Answer 13

1. environment
2. support
3. disability

Question 14

The capacity triangle can improve or diminish what?

Answer 14

how you function

Question 15

Epidemiology

Answer 15

1. prevalence
2. severity
3. gender
4. social class

Question 16

Prevalence of ID

Answer 16

OVERIDENTIFIED-doesn’t take into consideration adaptive skills. if have good adaptive skills they are not considered to have an ID.

• ppl w/ severe ID have shorter life span
• 2.5% or less of individuals have an ID

Question 17

Severity of ID

Answer 17

85% have mild so vast majority have a mild impairment-these tend to have children

• moderate = 10%
• severe = 4%
• profound = 2%

Question 18

Gender of ID

Answer 18

more prevalent in males

Question 19

Social class of ID

Answer 19

strong correlation between maternal education and intellectual disability

Question 20

Mild ID

Answer 20

identified at school age so get milestones on time, learn basic language, social, need help academically, more likely to repeat grade in typical classrooms, struggle w/ math semi skilld jobs, live independently

Question 21

Moderate ID

Answer 21

show signs as a toddler, motor skills lack, uninterested in surroundings, diagnosed in preschool, due to impairments in language development, can communicate effectively but probs w/ basic self care

Question 22

Severe ID

Answer 22

identified in infancy, almost always have probs w/ developmental milestones, genetic disorder like down syndrome also, speech is limited and difficult to undersatnd, comprehension is better than expression-usually cannot read/write/work independentl

Question 23

Profound ID

Answer 23

identified in infancy, genetic disorder, health probs coexist, functioning at 12 months in school, nonverbal

Question 24

Mild intellectual disability-look at 3 areas

Answer 24

1. academic performance
2. cognitive performance
3. social skills performance

Question 25

Academic performance for a mild ID person (reading and math)

Answer 25

general overall delays in academic development-tend to be low across the board

• reading is most important/usually difficult-see phonological problems similar to kids w/ dyslexia
• difference is that ID kids have probs w/ phonology and comprehension..dyslexic would just have phonology problem

Question 26

Cognitive performance in Mild ID

Answer 26

attention, memory, and generalization

Question 27

Attention for mild ID

Answer 27

orienting a task, attendint to a task, selective attention

Question 28

Memory for mild ID

Answer 28

deficits; may get something one day and next day they’ve lost it; impaired because they can’t attend to begin with so lose memory more frequent

Question 29

generalization for mild ID

Answer 29

probs with this is that they may learn a word but when they go back to read it in a text, it’s gone

Question 30

Social skills performance in mild ID

Answer 30

difficulty knowing what things to pay attention to, can’t remember what peer says
-can teach in general education; research shows that lives of these individuals and their functioning can be improved!!!

Question 31

Associated characteristics for ID

-mainly talking about 25% of kids w/ ID here/the more severe-profound usually show these things

Answer 31

1. steriotypes: hand flapping, rigid repetitive movement, rocking, face grimiscing
2. self injury
3. agression: attn avoiding
4. comorbid health problems: more at risk for depression, anxiety, underdiagnosed

Question 32

ID is characterized by significant limitations in:

Answer 32

self help skills and intellectual functioning

Question 33

adaptive behavior includes

Answer 33

gullability, counting money

Question 34

when measuring adaptive skills, you must consider

Answer 34

intellectual functioning
fine motor skills
culture

Question 35

(t/f) the function of someone w/ id is relatively stable and is not easily influenced by external factors

Answer 35

false

Question 36

maternal education and ID are correlated w/ each other (t/f)

Answer 36

TRUE