The Current Emphasis on Adaptive Skills in Defining Intellectual Disabilities

question 53

Multiple Choice

The current emphasis on adaptive skills in defining intellectual disabilities is due to the

• A)influence of the learning disabilities movement.
• B)realization that students can be "streetwise" despite having low IQ test scores.
• C)rise of the disability rights movement.
• D)joint efforts of parents of children with intellectual disabilities.

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Definitions:

Occurrence

An event or incident that happens or takes place.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Mutually Exclusive

Refers to events that cannot occur at the same time.

P(C)

The probability of occurrence of event C.