Abstract

ALARCON-LEIVA, Jorge  and  SEPULVEDA-DOTE, Maribel. Adaptative behavior as a diagnostic criterion of intellectual disability among students in Chile. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.1, pp.187-199. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.12110091713.

The educational policies in Chile have impelled the evaluation of adaptative behavior as a criterion of intellectual disability, so as to establish the supports required by the students. This initiative is both recent and pioneering and the article aims at evaluating it in relation to the normative framework that regulates and orients the professional activities connected to it. The work involves a documentary revision of the scientific context of the evaluation of adaptative behavior; it analyzes the coherence between said context and the Chilean educational policy and it presents some suggestions for improving the policies and the development of professional capacities. The latter aspect results from the identification of certain limitations in the normative framework as well as from the scarcity of trained human resources for its implementation.

Keywords : evaluation; intellectual disability; adaptative behavior; educational policy; professional capacities; school inclusion.

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