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Intellectual Disability and Adaptive-Social Skills

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Definitions of intellectual disability are available from the three most widely recognized classification systems, namely, the ICD 10 (i.e., the 10th edition of The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health [ICF]; World Health Organization,2001), the DSM-IV-TR (i.e., the textual revision of the 4th edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Mental Disorders; American Psychiatric Association,2000), and the AAMR 10 (i.e., the 10th revision of the American Association for Mental Retardation’s manual – Mental Retardation: Definition, Classification and Systems of Support; Luckasson et al.,2002).

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Giulio E Lancioni

  2. ONE Research Institute, Midlothian, VA, USA

    Nirbhay N. Singh

  3. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Mark F. O’Reilly

  4. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ, USA

    Jeff Sigafoos

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Lancioni, G.E., Singh, N.N., O’Reilly, M.F., Sigafoos, J. (2010). Intellectual Disability and Adaptive-Social Skills. In: Matson, J. (eds) Social Behavior and Skills in Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0234-4_8

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