CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -IQ test score has a median of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. A score of 70 or below (two standard deviations below the median) indicates intellectual limitations. These disabilities express as lacking competence in social, conceptual, and practical skills.

Detailed explanation-2: -Diagnosing Intellectual Disability A full-scale IQ score of around 70 to 75 indicates a significant limitation in intellectual functioning. However, the IQ score must be interpreted in the context of the person’s difficulties in general mental abilities.

Detailed explanation-3: -below 70-75, i.e. significantly below average. If a person scores below 70 on a properly administered and scored I.Q. test, he or she is in the bottom 2 percent of the American population10 and meets the first condition necessary to be defined as having mental retardation.

Detailed explanation-4: -The SSA has a disability listing for “intellectual disorder” (previously it used the term “intellectual disability, ” and before that, “mental retardation"). A person can be automatically approved for disability based on low IQ if he or she meets all of the criteria in the SSA’s listing.