What Is an Intellectual Disability Assessment?

Intellectual disability refers to the fact that a person's intelligence is significantly lower than that of the average person and shows adaptive behavioral disorders. Intellectual disability includes: during mental development, mental retardation due to various reasons; after intellectual development matures, it is caused by various reasons Dementia due to mental impairment and apparent mental decline in old age

Intellectual Disability Standard

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Classification according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and American Association of Mental Retardation (AAMD) mental disability grading standards, according to their intelligence quotient (IQ) and social adaptation behavior

(1) Intellectual retardation (MR) is based on the diagnostic criteria of the American Association of Intellectual Rehabilitation in 1983: 1. The intelligence is significantly lower than the average level, and the IQ value is below two standard deviations of the population mean, that is, 70 and 75; 2. Inadequate adaptation behaviors (including life and social responsibility); 3. Age under 18 years. (2) Intelligence quotient (IQ) refers to the ratio of the intellectual age to the actual age measured by a certain intelligence scale, that is, IQ = intelligent age / actual age × 100. Different intelligence measurement methods have different IQ values; but the main basis for diagnosis is social adaptive behavior