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| person w/ significantly sub-average intellectual functioning AND impairment in adaptive abilities in at least two of the following areas: communication, self-care, home living, social/interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, fxnal academic skills, work, leisure, health, and safety; onset before age 18 |
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| definition of intelligence |
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| the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge; include abstract thinking and reasoning, problem solving abilities |
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| the mental process or faculty of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment |
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| process by which awareness is focused |
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| the interpretation of sensory information provided to the brain by the sense organs |
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| process by which information stored in the CNS is accessed |
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| important aspects of cognitive development |
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| perceptual development, communication and language development, memory development, conceptual development, problem solving, academic skills |
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