Exam 7: Children With Intellectual Disability

Problem behaviors

The ability to orient and react to a specific stimulus

The ability to systematize incoming information to speed processing and facilitate retrieval

The current information retained to carry out everyday tasks

An individual’s cognitive, communication, and academic skills, social skills, and independent living skills

Gathers information about a student’s behavior in order to identify the function or purpose of an aversive behavior

The ability to apply learned information to novel problems

The ability to attend to specific stimuli in a field of similar stimuli

A performance-based intervention designed to emphasize the communicative strengths

Refers to individuals with core deficits encompassing both intellectual and social domains

The ability to coordinate different pieces of information into a linked system

A behavioral intervention used to replace an individual’s maladaptive or problem behaviors with more socially acceptable communication options

Goal-directed behaviors to achieve the positive feelings associated with task competency

The ability to arrange stimuli in a step-by-step or linear sequence

An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability