Intellectual Disabilities - Classification, Epidemiology and Causes

Clinical Psychology and People with Intellectual Disabilities: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-22

  Hatton, Chris ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'intellectual disability' socially constructed.; AAIDD 2010 Definition of 'Intellectual Disability'.; Cultural and linguistic diversity.; Disorders, conditions with IDs.; Epidemiology, causes of IDs for needs led services; ID, and classification system.; IDs, classification, epidemiology, causes.; Levels of ID.; People, classified as having an 'intellectual disability'.; Social model of disability, and oppressive organisation.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886323091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118404898.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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