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Intellectual Disability
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Intellectual Disability : An Inability to Cope with an Intellectually Demanding World

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1137025573
ISBN-13 9781137025579
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 30th, 2013
Print length 199 Pages
Weight 372 grams
Dimensions 22.30 x 13.70 x 1.60 cms
Ksh 16,200.00
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The current construct of intellectual disability is based on the assumption that both IQ and adaptive behaviour can be measured accurately. Intellectual Disability explains how and why this is not fit for purpose and that it is actually neither necessary nor reasonable to have a single construct of intellectual disability.

The construct of intellectual disability has developed over centuries and has had different functions at different times; from a concept that was used to describe people from whom society needed protecting from in the late to 19th and early 20th centuries, to one used to describe people who are unable to cope in the current environment. It is now defined in terms of having a measured IQ below a fixed cut off point, usually 70, and a low level of adaptive behaviour also often specified in terms of being below a cut off point. Intellectual Disability demonstrates that neither IQ nor adaptive behaviour can be measured with sufficient accuracy for fixed cut off points to be used and suggests a number of new much more loosely defined constructs of intellectual disability based on clinical judgment.


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