The Prevalence, Identification Process and Intervention Strategies of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
A Report of an Institution’s Fieldwork
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The writers of this paper presented a report of an institution of a fieldwork conducted in 2014, which used own identification process and intervention strategies to attend to the children with intellectual disabilities. The report gave the history and foundation of the institution and its programmes, which range from vocational training, special education services, reading instructions that provided individual instruction for children, physiotherapy services, and lots more. The paper reported the prevalence of intellectual disabilities in the centre, as well as the identification process adopted by the institution, as against the general identification process for children with intellectual disabilities; the various adopted intervention strategies the centre used to meet the individual needs of the children were discussed. Other important aspects of the centre’s programmes is the parental involvement in the educational programme of the children and the myriad of scholarships and grants the centre and the children received from the local and international organizations were highlighted by the report.
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