Marvin Is a Second Grade Student with a Moderate Intellectual

question 26

Multiple Choice

Marvin is a second grade student with a moderate intellectual disability. His teachers claim that his gnome costume for Halloween was perfect for him. They say that he is always happy and that he never meets a stranger. Recently his teacher had to stop him from leaving the classroom with a man who had come to fix the computer. Marvin displays characteristics of a person with _____.

• A)PKU
• B)fragile X syndrome
• C)Prader-Willi syndrome
• D)Williams syndrome

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