Adaptive Behavior




	ESE424 : The Class : Mild Disabilities : Mild Retardation : Adaptive Behavior

Adaptive Behavior

Estimated time to complete: 25 mins.

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In your lessons you have seen that adaptive behavior is a critical part of the definition of mental retardation. This criterion was introduced to prevent the "six-hour retarded child" so frequent during the early 1970s.

The construct of adaptive behavior has recently come under increased scrutiny. Many claim that it is a fuzzy, poorly defined construct. For example, look at this fact:

Given the normal, bell shaped distribution of intelligence, if IQ alone were used to determine mental retardation, 2.28% of a population of people would qualify. In our schools, approximately 2.3% of children qualify as having mental retardation.

The question becomes are we measuring the same behaviors in IQ tests that we are in adaptive behavior scales?

If you need to review these sections, click on the links below:

Adaptive Behaviors
The WISC (an example of IQ tests)

1. After reviewing the information in this unit, what similarities are there between adaptive behavior measures and IQ measures?

2. What differences exist?

2. Approximately how long did this assignment take to complete?

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E-mail Larry Gallagher at Larry.Gallagher@nau.edu