Course Information

About This Course:
This course discusses several aspects of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The areas that will be covered in this course are:

~Intellectual Disabilities and Developmental Disabilities
~Intellectual Disability
~Persons with Intellectual Disabilities have two or more limitations in the following areas:
~Functioning Levels
~Developmental Disabilities
~Examples of Developmental Disabilities 
~Causes of IDDD
~Causes of IDDD continued
~The risk of IDDD can be prevented or lowered by the following:
~Support and Services
~Learning
~Learning continued                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Objectives:
After completing this course, learners will successfully be able to:

1. define Intellectual Disabilities and Developmental Disabilities (ID/DD).
2. identify possible causes of ID/DD.
3. list preventable risk factors of ID/DD.

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External Links:

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