Workforce Challenges & DDS Waiver Services Analysis
Intellectual or Developmental Disability Definitions (1 of 2)
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Intellectual or Developmental Disability The term "developmental disability” means a severe, chronic disability of
Definition
Recommendation:
1. Recognize adaptive social
deficits
2. Require substantial functional
limitations in 3 or more major
life activities, that cross at
least 2 of the 3 domains:
conceptual, social, and
practical
a person which:
A. is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of
mental and physical impairments;
B. is manifested before the person attains age twenty-two;
C. is likely to continue indefinitely;
D. results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the
following areas of major life activity: [SEE BELOW]
E. reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special,
interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services that are of
lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and
coordinated.
Receptive and expressive language
AAIDD
Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations
in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers
many everyday social and practical skills. This disability
originates before the age of 18.
Intellectual functioning-also called intelligence-refers to general
mental capacity, such as learning, reasoning, problem solving, and so
on. One way to measure intellectual functioning is an IQ test. Generally,
an IQ test score of around 70 or as high as 75 indicates a limitation in
intellectual functioning.
Adaptive Deficit: Conceptual
Learning
Self-direction
Adaptive Deficit: Social
Self-care
Mobility
Adaptive Deficit: Practical
Capacity of independent living, and
Economic self-sufficiency
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Conceptual skills-language and literacy; money, time, and number
concepts; and self-direction.
Social skills-interpersonal skills, social responsibility, self-esteem,
gullibility, naïveté (i.e., wariness), social problem solving, and the ability
to follow rules/obey laws and to avoid being victimized.
Practical skills activities of daily living (personal care), occupational
skills, healthcare, travel/transportation, schedules/routines, safety, use of
money, use of the telephone.
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