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Assisting Students with Intellectual Disability Through Technology

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Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies

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Assistive and instructional technology; Intellectual disability

Introduction

Intellectual disability (ID) refers to limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, with onset during the developmental period (AAIDD 2018; Papazoglou et al. 2014). Moreover, ID is characterized by heterogeneity in terms of etiology, and it pertains to a variety of behavioral profiles in terms of relative strengths and weaknesses through an array of domains including the cognitive, language, social, and socio-emotional domains (Bertelli et al. 2018).

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing emphasis on adaptive functioning and the consequent support needs of people with ID. In the latest (5th) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association 2013), the severity of ID is specified on the basis of adaptive functioning which is considered indicative of the supports needed by a person with ID (Papazoglou et al. 2014). Even...

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  1. Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

    Panayiota Stavroussi & Charalampos Karagiannidis

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Stavroussi, P., Karagiannidis, C. (2020). Assisting Students with Intellectual Disability Through Technology. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_147

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