The 2002 AAIDD Definition States Intellectual Disability Is a Disability

question 37

Multiple Choice

The 2002 AAIDD definition states intellectual disability is a disability characterized by all of the following, EXCEPT:

• A)significant limitations in intellectual functioning.
• B)significant limitations in adaptive functioning.​
• C)it originates at birth.
• D)it originates before the age of 18.

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Definitions:

Functional Diversity

The range and value of various functional roles performed by species within an ecosystem, contributing to its resilience, productivity, and stability.

Energy Flow

The transfer and transformation of energy through an ecosystem, from primary producers to various levels of consumers and decomposers.

Net Primary Productivity

The rate at which plants and other photosynthetic organisms produce organic compounds in an ecosystem minus the rate at which they use some of these compounds for cellular respiration.

Biomass

Organic material derived from living or recently living organisms, used as a source of energy or in various industrial processes.