SUPPORTING

STUDENTS WITH
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

IDEA Criteria Educator/Counselor

Support
Intellectual
disability means Common Characteristics Academic
504 Plans -
significantly Poor academic performance
Accommodations
Difficulty with memory
subaverage general Difficulty with language, IEPs - Modifications
intellectual math, and writing Classroom support
Trouble with problem solving
functioning, existing Trouble generalizing
Social/Emotional
concurrently with

knowledge in life skills Second Step

A lack of social skills Dialectical Behavior
deficits in adaptive Therapy
Master functional life skills
behavior and skills later than normal Skillstreaming
manifested during Trouble with personal care BEst Buddies CLub
and hygiene
the developmental College/Career
period, that Facilitated Career
adversely affects a Classroom Support Counseling
Post-Secondary
child’s educational Break down larger tasks to
specific component parts Transition Support
performance. Post Secondary
Teach students in small
Resources
groups or 1 to 1
Provide opportunities to
practice skills in a number
of different setting
Use physical and verbal
prompts to guide
responses