Sentences with phrase «adaptive behavior significantly»
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The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.
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A child may be found eligible for special education and related services as a child with an intellectual disability if there is an adverse effect on the child's educational performance due to documented characteristics of intellectual disabilities which are described as a significantly sub average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.
Strategies teachers may use for addressing the instructional needs of students whose cognitive abilities are significantly below average and who exhibit deficits in adaptive behavior include: (1) repetition of key content; (2) including a functional component to lessons, that is, emphasizing skills needed for success in day - to - day adult life; 17 and (3) making concepts concrete.
Intellectual (or Cognitive) Disability, formerly labeled «mental retardation,» is defined by IDEA as «significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.»
In the combined data set, only the neurological status variable was found to be significantly associated with adaptive behavior and was entered as a covariate in subsequent regression analyses.
According to Table 5, the overall model that included intelligence, parental depression, neurological status, and the interaction among these variables significantly contributed to adaptive behavior (F = 7.20, p <.0001).
The overall model that included intelligence, parental depression, and the interactions significantly accounted for adaptive behavior (F = 20.812, p <.0001).