Intellectual Disability: Essay

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Intellectual Disability: Essay

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTIONIntellectual disability can be defined as learning impairment that have impact on behaviourof individual. Present study will review literature related to speech, language, communicationissues faced by kids. Furthermore, it will explain strategies that support in resolving suchproblems.MAIN BODYAs per the view of Beck, Davis and Freeman, (2015) Intellectual disability is the type ofdisease in which individual faces issues in performing intellectual functions such ascommunicating with others, walking, talking etc. these kids get developed slowly as compare tonormal children. They take more time to cover particular distance and they are unable to takecare of own self. Diaz and Hakuta, (2014) argued that kids with intellectual impairment finddifficulties in learning in school. They are unable to learn quickly. Earlier this disability wascalled as mental retardation but it seems like individual is mentally ill and it hurts feeling of thediseased person. There are many causes of occurring speech, language issues among kids. According to Taylor-Goh, (2017) babies those who have genetic problems suffer fromthis illness. During the pregnancy if mother come in touch with any infectious disease then alsoit can cause such problem in kids. When such children enter in school then they always need helpfor performing their intellectual functions. These people are called special children and there aremany schools which give special training to such kids. According to Haris Memisevic, Selmir Hadzic, (2013) behaviour model of languageacquisition explains that individual learn through imitation. Kids make mistakes and their parentsguide them so that they do not make mistakes again. This learning from errors supports thesechildren in improving their understanding. Social interactionist model describes that children canlearn many things and they can improve language barriers by communicating with their mother.This helps in cognitive development of babies.Karmiloff-Smith, (2018) stated that speech and language are two essential part of humanlife, it supports in making effective communication with others and sharing their thoughts andideas. Language is used for receiving and sending messages. Receiving message is calledreceptive and sending messages is known as expressive languages. If kids have good languageskills, then it helps them in gaining success in their school life. Language development takesplace between 3-5 years. This is the phase in which brain of individual gets developed. But the1

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