Diagnosing Intellectual Disability is more than just identifying a cut point. Join me on the 20th Feb at 1.30pm (with recording available) for a practical, clinically grounded overview of assessing and diagnosing Intellectual Disability. This training clarifies key diagnostic distinctions, explores factors that influence interpretation, and reviews the strengths and limitations of common assessment tools. Case examples and a live Q&A help translate the learning into real-world practice.

This training will cover:

• What is Intellectual Disability? Conceptual foundations and evolution of the diagnostic construct.

• Navigating diagnostic grey areas. Distinguishing between Intellectual Disability, Borderline Intellectual Functioning, and specific learning challenges.

• Assigning functional specifiers. Translating the DSM-5-TR categories into real life.

• Factors impacting test completion and interpretation, and how to navigate these. Including language skills, vision, motor skills, self-regulation, brain-fog, engagement, and medication.

• Teasing apart the impact of co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions and disabilities.

• Assessing Intellectual Disability in cultural minorities.

• Assessment tools for cognitive and adaptive functioning. What are the options, and what are the pros, cons, and utility of different tools?

• Exploration of these clinical issues through case examples.

• Q&A session following the training, available for attendees of the live event.