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Intellectual Disabilities Fact Sheet
IntellectualDisabilitiesWWWWWhat Causes anhat Causes anhat Causes anhat Causes anhat Causes anIntellectual Disability? Intellectual Disability? Intellectual Disability? Intellectual Disability? Intellectual Disability?Doctors have found manycauses of Intellectual most common are: Genetic conditions. Sometimesan Intellectual disability iscaused by abnormal genesinherited from parents, errorswhen genes combine, or otherreasons. Examples of geneticconditions are Down syn-drome, fragile X syndrome,and phenylketonuria (PKU). Problems during pregnancy. Anintellectual disability canresult when the baby does not NICHCY Disability Fact Sheet #8 January 2011 Matthew s StoryMatthew s StoryMatthew s StoryMatthew s StoryMatthew s StoryMatt is 15 years old. BecauseMatt has an Intellectual disabil-ity, he has been receiving specialeducation services since elemen-tary school. These services havehelped him tremendously,because they are designed to fithis special learning year he started highschool.
child’s family to develop what is known as an Individualized Family Services Plan, or IFSP. The IFSP will describe the child’s unique needs as well as the services he or she will receive to address those needs. The IFSP will also empha-size the unique needs of the family, so that parents and other family members will know how
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