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Overview
- Autism
- Deaf/Blindness
- Emotional Disturbance
- Hearing Impairment/Deafness
- Intellectual Disability
- Language Impairment
- Multiple Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability
- Speech Impairment
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- Young Child with a Developmental Delay
Intellectual Disability
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Intellectual disability means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
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Read about the specific criteria used to determine eligibility in the educational category of intellectual disabilities.
Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education – Criteria for Eligibility in the Educational Category of Intellectual Disability
A student displays an intellectual disability when:
- The student performs 2.0 Standard Deviations below their peers of equivalent age, ethnic, and cultural background when measured by a standardized instrument of cognitive ability;
- The student displays adaptive behavior consistent with measured cognitive ability. Adaptive behavior refers to the effectiveness with which a student meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility expected of his/her age and cultural group. There should be a significant positive correlation between the student's intellectual ability and adaptive behavior; and,
- The disability adversely affects the student’s educational performance.
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Other local, state and national resources related to intellectual disabilities
Local Resources
- Assistance with Respite Care in the Home (ARCH)
- Bridges Community Support Services
- Family Forward
- Down Syndrome Association of St. Louis
- Fragile X Resource Center of Missouri
- St. Louis Arc
- St. Louis Office for Developmental Disability Resources
- St. Louis Regional Office
- United Cerebral Palsy (UPC Heartland)
State Resources
National Resources
