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• 2 Diagnostic criteria and codes

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• 2.1.1 intellectual disabilities

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• What is criteria A for intellectual disability (intellectual development disorder)?

  deficits in intellectual functions. confirmed by clinical assessments and standardized intelligence testing

• What is criteria B for intellectual disability (intellectual development disorder)?

  deficits in adaptive functioning. without support limited functioning

• What is criteria C for intellectual disability (intellectual development disorder)?

  onset during developmental period

• Specifiers for intellectual disability (intellectual development disorder)?

  • Mild: Able to blend in and fuction 
  • Moderate: Can care for them selfs, sometimes need instructions and support, basic communication 
  • Severe: needs supervision + support in most situations, little ability to communicate 
  • Profound: requires close supervision. Extremely limited in day to day life -
    

• What is criteria B for global development delay?

   Severity level cannot be reliable assessed (eg with stand. testing) during childhood

• What is unspecified intellectual disability?

  over the age of 5
  when degree of mental disability is hard to define due to blindness, deaf, etc.

• 2.1.2 communication disorders

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• What is criteria A for language disorder?

  Difficulties in use of language across modalities that are below expected age, that include:
  

  • Reduced vocabulary 
    
  • Limited sentence structure 
    
  • Impairments in discourse (ability to use language to explain, describe or conversate)
    

• What is criteria B for language disorder?

  language abilities are below those expected of age. resulting in functional limitations

• What is criteria D for language disorder?

  The disability is not attributable to motor, medical, neurological or better explained by something else

• What is criteria B for speech sound disorder?

  causing limitations in effective communication or anxiety about speaking