Intellectual Disability

means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Please see sub-pages below for more types, instructional strategies, research, and resources.

(https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Special-Education-Disability-Areas.aspx)

This grouping below also includes Chromosomal Disorders that may or may not manifest with an intellectual disability.

Angleman Syndrome

Edwards Syndrome

Developmental Delay

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Prater-Willi Syndrome

Rett Syndrome

Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome