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    Intellectual Disability, better known as (ID) is a disorder. Most people who have (ID), if not found out about in childhood, may get misdiagnosed. There are different components that determine a person’s diagnosis of Intellectual Disability. Genetic factors (A person 's genetic makeup); Prenatal issues and illnesses (before birth); Childhood illnesses and issues as well as Environmental factors all play a part in the determinant of Intellectual Disability(WebMD,2016). Because Intellectual Disability

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    Topic Behavioral principles have long been employed to achieve educational progress with children who have intellectual disabilities (Drew & Hardman, 2007). An issue of substantial concern is behaviors that may be self-injurious or dangerous to those surrounding the individual. In order to prevent occurrences of inappropriate behavior, family members and the educational staff must put effective interventions into place. These behavior procedures include the use of punishment and aversive consequences

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    development of social skills in children with intellectual and specific learning disabilities the authors begin to explain why children with intellectual and specific learning disabilities social skills are absent. According to Brooks, Floyd, Robins, and Chan, “participation in social activities is positively related to children’s social adjustment, but little is known about the benefits of activity participation for children with intellectual and specific disabilities” (2015, p. 678). Children typically become

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    Call Home: Intellectual Disabilities and Residential Services in Nova Scotia,” is an article written by Rachel Barken (PH.D Candidate) from the Department of Sociology at McMaster University. This article is about how Nova Scotia still continues to institutionalize people with intellectual disabilities when other provinces across Canada are working on deinstitutionalizing. Provinces in Canada are moving towards the approach of community living based group homes for people with intellectual disabilities

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    even most unanswerable question; Why does society treat people with intellectual and developmental disabilities unfairly? Before we try to answer this question, first we must discuss why this topic is important, what exactly is an intellectual disability, and what you can do to solve this problem. I was never an advocate for this topic until two years ago. I was just like anyone else who has never been around people with a disability, unsure, scared, and kind of just avoided confrontation with them

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    from 2013 to 2015 has remained relatively unchanged with one exception – children with intellectual disabilities reading scores have actually dropped (National Report Card, 2015). The purpose of this study was to determine if evidence-based reading interventions from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) would increase phoneme blending and segmenting skills in children who have intellectual disabilities. Two 1st grade special education students, ages 6 and 7, participated in an AB research

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    Definition: The term intellectual disability has gone through a series of modification along the years. For instance, at first mental retardation was the terminology intellectual disability was referred to as (Gargiulo & Bouck, 2017, p. 162).Nonetheless, Intellectual disability is defined by Gargiulo and Bouck as “a disability characterized by significant limitations in both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills” (Gargiulo

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    individuals with intellectual disabilities. If an individual is seen as unresponsive to help, in the past they were considered to be a burden upon society (Reynolds, & Dombeck, 2016). Until recently, the typical form of “treatment” that most individuals received consisted of seclusion from mainstream society, thus labeling them as a “patient” which leads to a sense of disempowerment (2016). Furthermore, this label resulted in implications that individuals with an intellectual disability were limited

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    Issues Affecting Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Although estimates vary, research shows that approximately one percent of the world’s population is affected by intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDDs) (Maulik et al., 419). Developmental disabilities refer to a wide range of severe, long term disabilities which affect physical or cognitive functioning; developmental disabilities appear before age twenty two. Intellectual disabilities refer to a specific category

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    Intellectual disability (ID) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder, low intelligence quotient (IQ <70) and restrictions in adaptive functioning are the main descriptive features, normally diagnosed by 18 years of age1. The evaluation of adaptive functioning depends on three major fields which include: social, practical skills and conceptual 2. The prevalence for the whole population worldwide approach 1-3% 3 and it is more predominant in males than females due to unknown reasons (Diagnostic and

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