Information on Five Challenging Disabilities-Intellectual Disability

Information on Five Challenging Disabilities-Intellectual Disability
By Linda Wilmshurst and Alan W. Brue
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Although IDEA 2004 provides federal guidelines, each state may have slightly different ways of determining who is eligible for classification under certain categories of disability, and intellectual disability (ID) is a good example of this. While all states require evidence of subaverage IQ and impaired adaptive functioning as part of the eligibility criteria for ID, the actual scores used to determine whether a child qualifies for the program vary from state to state. Parents and teachers are often frustrated to learn that even though a child may qualify for ID status based on IQ and adaptive functioning, the child may not qualify for services under this category if academic skills do not also fall within this specified range. It may also be frustrating if the child moves to a different state and no longer qualifies because the eligibility requirements are different.

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