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"Discuss how a student is identified as having intellectual disabilities. Be complete in your answer including the IQ score that is two standard deviations below the mean of 100." The text to reference,"Identifying Intellectual Disabilities For students with intellectual disabilities to receive special education services, they must go through the formal process of identification. For some students, this will have occurred when they were very young, even infants, using assessment methods designed just for that age group. Other students are identified when they enter kindergarten and cannot manage the academic, social, and other expectations of the school setting, and yet others are identified sometime during the elementary school years. Assessment For students who may have intellectual disabilities, assessment focuses on intellectual functioning and adaptive skills, as stressed in the definitions presented earlier. However, medical and other information also is assessed as appropriate. Assessment of Intellectual Functioning You already have learned that one common test used to assess intellectual functioning in students being considered for special education services is the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V) ( Wechsler, 2014 ). Another test sometimes used is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (5th ed.) ( Roid, 2003 ). These tests tend to measure a student's overall abilities and predict school achievement. They are individually administered only by professionals who have been specially trained to do so. You should keep in mind that no single test can measure all aspects of intelligence. Moreover, intelligence tests tend to ignore what some people consider"