Special Needs Teachers’ Perceptions on the Psychometric Test

Abstract

In this survey a presentation of the difficulties of students with mild intellectual disabilities is performed. Intellectual disability is a neurodevelopment diagnosis and it refers to children who have developmental, adaptive behavioural and cognitive difficulties compared to their peers. Intellectual disabilities are categorized by their severity into: mild, moderate, severe, or profound. The purpose of this research is to construct a psychometric instrument for detecting intellectual disabilities in high school and specifically high school students aged 13-17. In order to find out if the specific psychometric test is appropriate to detect Intellectual disability, questionnaires have been given to special needs teachers. The research findings illustrate that the specific psychometric test is appropriate in order to detect intellectual disability.