Intellectual Disorders

Question 1

For a child to have an intellectual disability, they must have…

Answer 1

A low score in all parts of the IQ test

Question 2

What does criteria A say about intellectual disorder?

Answer 2

The child has to have below level intellectual functioning

Question 3

What does Criteria B say about intellectual disability

Answer 3

There has to be concurrent deficits in adaptive functioning

Question 4

What are adaptive skills?

Answer 4

Skills you have which would meet your chronological age.

Question 5

What does Criteria C say about intellectual disability?

Answer 5

That the deficits have to occur during the child’s developmental period.

Question 6

What are the severity specifiers for intellectual disability?

Answer 6

Mild: 55 to 69 on IQ

Moderate: 40-54 on IQ

Severe: 25-39 on IQ

Profound: Below 25 on IQ

Question 7

What is a global cognitive deficit?

Answer 7

When a person with an intellectual disability is low on most if not all domains.

Question 8

What skills are expected of a child in the mild age of intellectual disability?

Answer 8

They would have skills that would match six grade level skills such as…
-Knowing how to socialize
-Knowing certain math topics.

Question 9

What is expected of a child who is in the moderate range of intellectual disability?

Answer 9

It’s expected that they acquire second grade academic skills.

Question 10

What skills are expected of a child who is in the severe range of intellectual disability?

Answer 10

To have pre-academic skills before 1st grade.
Knowing their colors
Knowing the alphabet
Doing simple calculations
They may also have motor and sensory problems

Question 11

What is expected for a child who is in the profound range of intellectual disability?

Answer 11

Early developmental delays that are evident early in development. The milestones are delayed.
They are likely nonverbal or minimally verbal.
They require constant supervision.

Question 12

What are specific learning disorders?

Answer 12

Disorders that are focused on specific cognitive areas.

Question 13

What are the three types of specific learning disorders?

Answer 13

Reading
Mathematics’
Written experession

Question 14

What is criteria A for Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Answer 14

Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts.

Question 15

What does Criteria B for Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Answer 15

restriced, repetitive, patterns of behavior, interests, or activites.

Question 16

What are the types of specifiers for ASD?

Answer 16

Whether they have a language impairment or not
Whether the diagnosis is associated with a known medical or genetic condition or environmental factor

Question 17

What are the symptoms that fall under Criteria B for ASD?

Answer 17

Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech

Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal behavior.

Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus.

Hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of environment

Question 18

What are the severity specifiers for ASD?

Answer 18

Level 1-Requires support
Level 2- Requires substantial support
Level 3- Requires very substantial support.

Question 19

What does it mean for a developmental disordet to be preconceptual?

Answer 19

Disorders that are inherited.

Question 20

What does it mean for a developmental disorder to be preconceptual?

Answer 20

Disorders that are inherited.

Question 21

What does it mean for a developmental disorder to be periconceptual?

Answer 21

Things that happen at the time of conception. It is not inherited from either parent.