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Intellectual disability : an inability to cope with an intellectually demanding world / Simon Whitaker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Description: viii, 191 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781137025579
Subject(s): Summary: "The current construct of intellectual disability is based on the assumption that both IQ and adaptive behaviour can be measured accurately. Intellectual Disability explains how and why this is not fit for purpose and that it is actually neither necessary nor reasonable to have a single construct of intellectual disability."
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Book Book AIDE Canada Main Library 14:02.a WHIT.a 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 100342

"The current construct of intellectual disability is based on the assumption that both IQ and adaptive behaviour can be measured accurately. Intellectual Disability explains how and why this is not fit for purpose and that it is actually neither necessary nor reasonable to have a single construct of intellectual disability."