Mayor disabilities affecting people with IDD

KA205 - Strategic Partnerships for youth 2019-1 -PT02-KA205-005995

PEDAGOGICAL AND DIDACTICAL GUIDELINES

Identify and distinguish the major disabilities affecting people with ID

Intelligence is the general mental capacity that involves reasoning, planning, solving problems, thinking abstractly, comprehending complex ideas, learning efficiently, and learning from experience (AAIDD, 2010).

Mayor disabilities affecting people with IDD

- have difficulties in intellectual functioning like reasoning, problem solving, planning, abstract thinking, judgment, academic learning, and learning from experience - have difficulties in adaptive functioning that impact conforming to developmental and sociocultural standards for independence and ability to meet their social responsibility - have difficulties in communication, speaking, talking - have difficulties in motor skills and motor skills, standing, walking