Education for people with mild mental impairments?

[Mike_Yates]

Are there education opportunities for people with mild mental impairments?

I have an IQ of 89 and am a former special education placement.

Taking on the regular curriculum in post-secondary education with cognitive disabilities could be extremely difficult if not impossible.

What kinds of continued education programs exist for individuals with below-average cognitive functioning?

My prospects in terms of work and education are extremely limited. I am disabled.

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[mercury14]

Are there education opportunities for people with mild mental impairments?

I have an IQ of 89 and am a former special education placement.

Taking on the regular curriculum in post-secondary education with cognitive disabilities could be extremely difficult if not impossible.

My prospects in terms of work and education are extremely limited. I am disabled.

Your IQ is far too high for a disability.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Your IQ is far too high for a disability.

I think in order to qualify for "special" services your IQ has to be at least one standard deviation below the mean average.

The cutoff for mental retardation is an IQ below 70.

70-85 is whats known as "borderline intellectual functioning".

Nonetheless, most college students have IQ's between 115-130.

Less than 1% of the entire populace has an IQ above the "genius" 140 mark. 130 is the minimum qualifying score for MENSA.

 

[mercury14]

I think in order to qualify for "special" services your IQ has to be at least one standard deviation below the mean average.

For social security disability one must have :

1) have an IQ of 70 or below AND... one of the following:

A) be dependent on others for physical needs (eating, getting dressed, bathroom)
B) Verbal IQ under 60
C) Have a physical or mental impairment preventing work

The cutoff for mental retardation is an IQ below 70.

That's not you.

70-85 is whats known as "borderline intellectual functioning".

That's also not you.

 

[Mike_Yates]

For social security disability one must have :

1) have an IQ of 70 or below AND... one of the following:

A) be dependent on others for physical needs (eating, getting dressed, bathroom)
B) Verbal IQ under 60
C) Have a physical or mental impairment preventing work




That's not you.




That's also not you.

The only thing preventing me from working is the level of my education and my means of transportation.

 

[warrior queen]

The only thing preventing me from working is the level of my education and my means of transportation.

No, the only thing preventing you from working is the fact that you don't exist.
I'm notoriously bad with alts though, so no way will I be able to figure out who you are.

 

[mercury14]

The only thing preventing me from working is the level of my education and my means of transportation.

The only thing keeping you from working is your excuses.

 

[Mike_Yates]

The only thing keeping you from working is your excuses.

Good luck trying to find work other than at the window of a fast food without a bachelors degree from a university.

 

[chillywilly2]

Good luck trying to find work other than at the window of a fast food without a bachelors degree from a university.

So what have you got against a fast food window...feet generally make good transportation so your only other excuse is your lazy ass

 

[Aquagal]

Who do you think brings you mail? Fixes computers? Linemen? Oilfield workers? Cashiers at the grocery store? Labor jobs? Police officers (this one makes me shudder to think for you though), firemen. Not every decent paying job is behind a desk.

 

[Mike_Yates]

The prerequisites employers have for entry-level positions have become so astronomically stringent, people with PhD's plus 20 years of work experience are being turned down jobs.

A lot more employers are demanding a minimum of a masters degree before you can start working for them. Because of these silly corporatist policies, soon you will have large masses of people with PhD's bagging groceries and sweeping floors.

Back 20-30 years ago, someone straight out of college could easily start a job and had a chance of becoming the middle-man at a company after 10-15 years on the job. Hell, even high school graduates were getting good jobs.

Because of this ridiculous bureaucracy, we have herds of millions of college graduates who are tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and can't find jobs because greedy corporations don't think that they are good enough.

Nowadays employers say that you have to have a PhD to write things down on a piece of paper and answer a phone all day.

Human beings were not meant to spend the first 26 years of their lives being educated so they could spend the rest of it sitting at a desk all day and make $40,000 per year.