Classification and Intellectual Disability CC

Robert L. Schalock, PhD, Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Hastings College, and co-author of the new AAIDD definition manual, talks about the five key assumptions in the definition of intellectual disability, how classification of ID has changed, and what the new manual means for professionals on a practical level.

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• Robert Shalock
• AAIDD
• intellectual disability
• intellectual disabilities
• disability
• disabled
• developmental disability
• mental retardation
• IQ scores

[ferdo621]

@youngdones intellectual disability can be put into four categories but sometimes it cannot be specified due to the inability to provide a measure of the client's IQ. However, these are the common categories:

Mild Mental Retardation: IQ level 50-55 to approximately 70

Moderate Retardation: IQ level 35-40 to 50-55

Severe Mental Retardation: IQ level 20-25 to 35-40

Profound Mental Retardation: IQ level below 20 or 25

Remember that adaptive behaviour should strongly be taken into consideration

[youngdones]

An intellectual disability is an IQ below 70, correct?

[lovepolskaforever]

@ethengar11 Dear God are you ever screwed. You have to understand functionality is hard for her... which provokes extreme anxiety... imagine if someone was forcing you to do something and you got a huge anxiety attack and couldn't do it? that's what life is like. What does she like to do? i'm open for a convo with you about this. I have one myself

[kjbhlogkh]

Robert L. Schalock PhD is someone who is just fine with someone who believes that murder is politcally correct, because in a culture of this so called politcal correctness butchering people like him by chopping his head off is the most politically correct thing to do, and he is not a human being for what he is promoting!

[ethengar11]

i got a girl pregnant who is mildly intellectually disabled. i'm trying to do the right thing by staying with her to help raise the child but i'm unable to communicate with her on an adult level. my frustration with her stupidity and her treatment of our son causes me to fantasise about being violent toward her on a regular basis. as she refuses to accept her condition or to get diagnosis and treatment it will be impossible for me to gain custody of my son if i left her. so i need to stay. HELP!

[MsAlvarez71]

What doctor do I get this diagnosis from?

[youngdones]

Does borderline intellectual functioning (IQ 70-85) qualify in the intellectual disability criteria?