Adaptive Behavior
Adaptive behavior is the collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that people have learned so they can function in their everyday lives. Significant limitations in adaptive behavior impact a person’s daily life and affect the ability respond to a particular situation or to the environment. On these standardized measures, significant limitations in adaptive behavior are operationally defined as performance that is at least 2 standard deviations below the mean of either (a) one of the following three types of adaptive behavior: conceptual, social, or practical, or (b) an overall score on a standardized measure of conceptual, social, and practical skills.
Examples of Adaptive Behavior Skills
Conceptual Skills
Receptive and expressive language
Reading and writing
Money concepts
Self-directions
Social Skills
Interpersonal
Responsibility
Self-esteem
Gullibility (likelihood of being tricked or manipulated)
Naïveté
Follows rules
Obeys laws
Avoids victimization
Practical Skills
Personal Activities of daily living such as eating, dressing, mobility and toileting
Instrumental activities of daily living such as preparing meals, taking medication, using the telephone, managing money, using transportation and doing housekeeping activities
Occupational skills
Maintaining a safe environment
Calculation of Disability in Mental Retardation
100 - IQ/IQ equivalent with a variation of five to ten points based on adaptive behaviour and clinical findings is the usual accepted procedure. Once mental retardation is labeled the disability should be at least forty percent (40%) (100 denotes mid point of average IQ)
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APPENDIX – 2
SPECIMEN COPY OF RECENTLY UPDATED LD CERTIFICATE IN KERALA
On the basis of academic evaluation and assessment report as given above, it is hereby certified that Kum /Kumari………………………………….., Std. X student of …………………………………………………..……………………(School) is having Learning Disability in the area of ……………………………………….. (Specify Dyslexia, Dysgraphia or Dyscalculia).
He/she may be provided with the following examination concessions in the S.S.L.C. March 2012 Examination:
1. ……………………………………………………………………….
2.………………………………………………………………………
3. ……………………………………………………………………….
4.…………………………………………………………………………
5.………………………………………………………………………….
Place:
Date:
Signature
Name and official address of Govt. Psychiatrist
(Not below the rank of Assistant Surgeon)
Office seal
(This certificate issued only for the SSLC exam- year……..)
APPENDIX – 1
SPECIMEN COPY OF RECENTLY UPDATED DISABILITY CERTIFICATE IN KERALA
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