Essentials of Intellectual Disability Assessment and Identification.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: History of Intellectual Disability -- Early Beginnings -- The Turn of the Century: 1900 to 1950 -- The Age of Assessment: Late 1950s to 1970 -- 1980s to the Present -- Summary -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Two: Prevalence, Causes, Issues, and Comorbid Disorders -- Etiology of Intellectual Disabilities: Subtypes -- Differential Diagnoses -- Comorbidity -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Three: Current Intellectual Disability Diagnostic and Federal Education Criteria -- The DSM-5 -- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities -- Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 -- Differential Diagnoses and Comorbid Conditions -- Specific Learning Disabilities -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Four: Legal Issues and Concerns -- Education and the Law: Issues and Concerns -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Five: Theories of Intelligence and the Flynn Effect -- Spearman's Two-Factor Theory -- Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities -- Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory -- Triarchic Theory of Intelligence -- Planning, Attention-Arousal, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory of Intelligence -- Theory of Multiple Intelligences -- Flynn Effect -- Intellectual Disability and Capital Punishment Cases -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Six: Assessment of an Intellectual Disability -- Designing a Test Battery -- Areas to Assess -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Seven: Integration of Assessment Results -- Report Sample #1 -- Report Sample #2 -- Test Yourself -- Chapter Eight: Postassessment Planning -- Common Parent Reactions to Learning a Child has a Disability -- Guidelines for Parents of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities -- Transition Planning -- Self-Determination and Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.

Application of Self-Determination Practices -- Results of The Arc Survey: FINDS 2011 -- Test Yourself -- Appendix A: State Departments of Special Education -- Appendix B: AAIDD and The Arc Position Statement on the Criminal Justice System -- Criminal Justice System -- Appendix C: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD): Guidelines to Professional Conduct -- Position Statement of AAIDD -- Appendix D: The ARC Position Statement on Self-Determination -- Self-Determination -- Appendix E: AAIDD and The Arc Position Statement on Self-advocacy -- Self-Advocacy -- Appendix F: The ARC Position Statement on Education -- Education -- Appendix G: The ARC Position Statement on Employment -- Employment -- Appendix H: Helpful Websites -- References -- About the Authors -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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