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Intellectual Disability (ID)

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Contact – Deborah Dominguez-Clark Deborah.Clark@ped.nm.gov or your EA EA/LEA assignments

Intellectual disability means 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. (34 CFR Sec. 300.8(c)(6))

Resources

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
202-387-1968
http://www.aaidd.org/

The Arc of New Mexico
Toll free: 800-358-6493
http://www.arcnm.org/

The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH)
202-540-9020
http://www.tash.org/