The ppt. presention includes a brief and concise definition of mental retardation, kinds of assessment, interventions, and practical advises on how to treat MRs.

2. Mental Retardation
Learning and Behavior
Characteristics

3. Cognitive Functioning
• Sub-average intellectual skills
• Low academic achievement
• Difficulty in attending to tasks
• Difficulty in generalizing

4. Adaptive Behaviors
• Self-care and daily living skills
• Social development
• Positive character

5. Mental Retardation
Assessment
Procedures

6. Traditional Assessment
• The parents fill-in pre-referral form
about the family history and
development history of the child
• Clinical team for a thorough
evaluation of child’s
intellectual, socio-emotional and
physical development

7. Specialists
• Special educator
• Early childhood educator
• Speech/language pathologist
• Occupational and physical therapist
• Clinical psychologist
• Physician
• Nurse, etc

8. Team-Based Assessment
• Involves a team of specialists
– Multidisciplinary
team members independently assess
the child
- Interdisciplinary
independent assessment with
integration
- Transdisciplinary
allows other tem members during
assessment process

9. Activity-Based Assessment
• Criterion referenced assessment
• Child-centered
• Activity-based intervention

10. Activity-Based Assessment
• AEPS- Assessment Evaluation and
Programming System for Infants and
Children
– AEPS_SampleTestItems.pdf
– AEPS_ScoringSample.pdf
– AEPS_SampleInterventions.pdf
• IPAS- Infant-Preschool Assessment
Scale
- natural play

11. Cognitive Assessment Tools
• DAS- Differential Ability Scale
• WPPSI-R- Wechsler Preschool and
Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised
• WISC-III- Wechsler Intelligence Scale
for Children- III
• Standford-Binet IV

12. Adaptive Behavior
Assessment Tools
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
- survey interview form
- parent rating form
- expanded interview form
- teacher rating form
• AAMD Adaptive Behavior Scale
• SIB-R- Scales of Independent
Behavior- Revised

13. Curriculum
• CCYC- Cognitive Curriculum for
Young Children
• FIE- Feuerstein Instrumental
Enrichment

14. Mainstreaming
• TOGETHER, Study the students IEP
• Set REGULAR MEETINGS with each
other and with the families
• When teaching abstract
concepts, provide multiple
CONCRETE EXAMPLES
• Supplement verbal instructions with
DEMONSTRATIONS

15. Mainstreaming
• Assign a peer tutor
• VARY THE TASKS in drills and
practice activities
• Have a volunteer TAPE-RECORD
reading assignments
• Encourage ACCEPTANCE of the
student by his/her classmates