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Gargiulo, R., & Bouck, E. (Eds.) (2018). Instructional strategies for students with mild, moderate, and severe intellectual disability. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506369785

• Chapter 1: Understanding Intellectual Disability. In this chapter, you will learn how society’s views of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) have changed. You will also examine the four main ways of classifying individuals with ID.

• Chapter 2: Foundational Concepts: Etiology of Intellectual Disability and Characteristics of Students With Intellectual Disability Read pp. 29-40. In this reading, you will examine pre-, peri-, and postnatal causes of intellectual disability.

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. (n.d.). Definition of intellectual disability.

• This website from the American Association on Intellectual and Development Disabilities explains their commonly used definition of intellectual disabilities and the constructs of intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior that indicate ID.

Gargiulo, R., & Bouck, E. (Eds.) (2018). Instructional strategies for students with mild, moderate, and severe intellectual disability. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506369785

• Chapter 2: Foundational Concepts: Etiology of Intellectual Disability and Characteristics of Students With Intellectual Disability Read pp. 41-47. In this section of Chapter 2, you will examine characteristics of students with intellectual disability including learning characteristics and social and behavioral characteristics.

Maria Farinha Filmes (Producer), & Bernier, O. (Director). (2022). Forget me not. [Film]. Cinema Libre Studio.

• Filmmaker Olivier Bernier and his wife Hilda chronicle their journey to find an appropriate education for their son with Down syndrome. This documentary film addresses the history of services to students with disabilities including federal legislation and the reality of finding an inclusive setting for a child, from identification through placement and transition services.

The IRIS Center. (2004, Rev. 2016, 2019). What do you see? Perceptions of disability.

• This module from the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University examines the concepts of people-first and identity-first language in a discussion of the best ways to address people with disabilities in person and in conversation.

PBS. (2016). The story that revealed Willowbrook’s horrors [Video]. YouTube.

• This PBS story looks back at the seminal 1972 investigative journalism expose on New York’s Willowbrook State School which has been said to have impacted the course of education of people with intellectual disabilities.