Interpretive Exercise Carrie Was Diagnosed as Having an Intellectual Disability When She

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Interpretive Exercise
Carrie was diagnosed as having an intellectual disability when she was three years-old.Now,at the age of seven,she is about to enter second grade.She can dress herself in the morning,although she has difficulty with buttons and zippers and she cannot tie her own shoes.She self-toilets and washes her own hands and face.She likes to look at pictures in books and she can label familiar objects in her environment (e.g. ,table,book,dog) .She is learning to recognize colours,letters,and numbers.Carrie does not look any different from other second graders,but her speech is sometimes difficult to understand.In a recent report,the school psychologist indicated that Carrie has an IQ of 65.
-Carrie's teacher is working on identifying colours.Which activity would be most consistent with the concept of functional academics?

• A)sorting blocks by colour
• B)teaching red and green using a traffic light
• C)associating colour names with letters of the alphabet (e.g. ,red = R)
• D)introducing colour names in alphabetical order

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