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Intellectual or Developmental Disability Definitions (2 of 2)
DSM-5
Intellectual or Developmental Disability Intellectual disability involves impairments of general mental abilities
Definition
that impact adaptive functioning in three domains, or areas. These
domains determine how well an individual copes with everyday tasks.
While intellectual disability does not have a specific age requirement,
an individual's symptoms must begin during the developmental period
and are diagnosed based on the severity of deficits in adaptive
functioning.
Adaptive Deficit: Conceptual
Adaptive Deficit: Social
Adaptive Deficit: Practical
The conceptual domain includes skills in language, reading, writing,
math, reasoning, knowledge, and memory.
The social domain refers to empathy, social judgment, interpersonal
communication skills, the ability to make and retain friendships, and
similar capacities.
The practical domain centers on self-management in areas such as
personal care, job responsibilities, money management, recreation,
and organizing school and work tasks.
See Appendix, Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Definitions, for
peer state examples.
ICD-11
Neurodevelopmental disorders are behavioral and cognitive disorders that
arise during the developmental period that involve significant difficulties in
the acquisition and execution of specific intellectual, motor, or social
functions. Although behavioral and cognitive deficits are present in many
mental and behavioral disorders that can arise during the developmental
period (e.g., Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder), only disorders whose core
features are neurodevelopmental are included in this grouping. The
presumptive etiology for neurodevelopmental disorders is complex, and in
many individual cases is unknown.
Conceptual skills are related to the application of knowledge (e.g., reading,
writing, calculating, solving problems, decision-making) and
communication
Social skills are those related to managing interpersonal interactions,
relationships, social responsibility, following rules, obeying laws as well as
avoiding victimization.
Practical skills are those related to activities such as self-care, health and
safety, occupational skills, recreation, use of money, transportation, and use
of home appliances and devices.
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