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A disability characterized
by significant limitations
in intellectual
functioning and in
adaptive behaviour as
expressed in conceptual,
social and practical
adaptive skills, which has
to originate before the
age of 18.
Classifications of
Intellectual Disability
Level
IQ range
Mild
50 70
Moderate
Severe
Profound
35 49
20 34
19 & less
If a child has...
Little motivation
2. Fragile X Syndrome
4. Smith-Magenis Syndrome
6. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
7. Prader-Willi Syndrome
8. Angelman Syndrome
Information and
Strategies for Teachers
Intellectual
Disability
Awareness
Language development
Metacognition
Slow to learn
Self- regulation
Difficulties in self-regulating emotions
Social isolation
Motivation
Working memory
Gullibility
Quick Facts!
Down syndrome had become the most recognizable form of disability by the early
20th century.
It is named after John Langdon Down, the British doctor who first described the
syndrome scientifically in 1886.
3 out of 100 people meet the criteria of intellectual disabilities but only 1% of the
population is identified.