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Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...
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Intellectual Disability

Intellectual functioning. Also known as IQ, this refers to a person’s ability to learn, reason, make decisions, and solve problems. Adaptive behaviors. These are skills necessary for day-to-day life, ...
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A Snapshot of Secondary Education for Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Given the number of students identified with mild intellectual disabilities and the studies showing their poor postschool outcomes, it is ...
Nature

A recessive form of extreme macrocephaly and mild intellectual disability complements the spectrum of PTEN hamartoma tumour syndrome

This study was approved by the Ethics Committees of the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Leipzig, and Oxford. Informed consent of patient 1 (P1) and both parents (including their consent for P2) was ...
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Help available for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries

This article was written for our sponsor, Alliance Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 26.8 percent of adults in North Carolina have some type of intellectual or ...
Psychology Today

Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...