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Mild intellectual disabilities are characterized by significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning and deficits in adaptive behavior that affect educational performance. Students with mild IDs learn more slowly, struggle with academics, learn concretely, and have difficulty with directions, tasks, social skills, and controlling emotions. Effective instructional approaches include direct instruction, embedding functional curriculum, using concrete examples and visuals, unison responding, structured schedules, generalization of skills, extended practice, cooperative learning, hands-on learning, repetition, and incorporating movement. Common accommodations are partner learning, alternative curriculum, paper-based resources, pre-teaching, alternative assignments, extra practice, audio texts, and scribes.

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Mid Facts

Mild intellectual disabilities are characterized by significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning and deficits in adaptive behavior that affect educational performance. Students with mild IDs learn more slowly, struggle with academics, learn concretely, and have difficulty with directions, tasks, social skills, and controlling emotions. Effective instructional approaches include direct instruction, embedding functional curriculum, using concrete examples and visuals, unison responding, structured schedules, generalization of skills, extended practice, cooperative learning, hands-on learning, repetition, and incorporating movement. Common accommodations are partner learning, alternative curriculum, paper-based resources, pre-teaching, alternative assignments, extra practice, audio texts, and scribes.

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MILD INTELLECTUAL

DISABILITIES

Characteristics of
Definition:
Mild Intellectual
An intellectual disability means significantly sub-average
Disabilities: general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with
Academic-
deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the
• Learns more slowly – needs
developmental period, that adversely affects a child's
more repetition.
educational performance.
• Academic deficits.
•Learns concretely.
• Difficulty remembering Educational Approach for MID:
directions & expectations.
• Takes longer to accomplish • DIRECT INSTRUCTION.
tasks. • Embed functional curriculum.
Social/ Behavioral-
• Use Concrete Examples when teaching.
• Socially awkward. • Move from concrete objects, to
• Often extra friendly. pictures, to symbols, THEN to
• Lacks appropriate social
graphics/abstracts.
skills for getting teacher’s
attention. • Unison Responding (choral responding).
• Often easy to please. • Use Visuals - Make each activity real.
• May have difficulty • Structured Class & Schedule (give notice
controlling emotions.
• Persistent.
for changes).
• Becomes fixated on certain • Extend Generalization for All Content.
topics. • Make connections obvious; connect old
• Overly dependent on
learning to new learning & across
parents/caretakers (learned
helplessness). content.
• Plan Extended Maintenance of skills
Physical- Peer Buddies (for all students).
• Doesn’t understand social
rules/pragmatics.

• Deficits in adaptive behavior-


everyday life skills.
• Socially immature
Instructional Strategies for MID:
• Cooperative Learning Groups (heterogeneous).
• Alternative Curriculum.
• Alternative Assignments (products).
• Connect learning to Real Life.
• EXTRA practice.
• Hands-on Learning – use manipulatives – use
a variety of tools/approaches for each skill.
• Repetition & Use Gestures to prompt and remind.
• Homework ONLY after mastery!
• Incorporate Mnemonics, Movement, and
Drama (role playing/acting out
concepts).
Common
Accommodations for MID:
• Partner or Cooperative Learning.
• Alternative Curriculum.
• Paper-based resources that assist
student in recalling information:
charts, word lists, step-by-step
directions, number lines, and
word walls.
• Pre-teach concepts.
• Alternative Assignments (products).
• EXTRA practice.
• Audio text or Read Aloud.
• Scribe.

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