Chapter 5

Question 1

Causes of intellectual disabilities

Answer 1

Genetic and chromosomal ex: Down Syndrome

Environmental- maternal age, substance abuse, toxoplasmosis (liter box)

Psychosocial Risk- (PreNatal) these are not causative but what put people at risk

Question 2

Functional Curriculum

Answer 2

Basic academic skills
Functional academics; independent life skills
Self determination/goal directed 
Community based instruction 
Daily life skills

Question 3

Intellectual Disabilities

Answer 3

Intellectual Disability is “significantly sub average intellectual functioning, exciting concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. “