{"id":1115,"date":"2025-11-20T07:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/about-intellectual-disability\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:23:44","slug":"about-intellectual-disability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/about-intellectual-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"About Intellectual Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b-about.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2327\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b-about.jpg 742w, https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b-about-500x137.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b-about-300x82.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b-about-150x41.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b-about-480x131.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, 742px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"color:#204c01\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-c8360c82620f89622117a29a9e64fcb0 wp-block-post-title has-text-color\">About Intellectual Disability<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benefits of Sports to ID Persons Participating in sports activities is physically and mentally beneficial to everybody. As ID persons are rather inferior in intellectual and mental functioning, sports development is particularly essential to them. Not only does it help improve their health but also boost their self-esteem through communication with others, and then integrate into the community accordingly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What is Intellectual Disability<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>1.<\/strong> <strong>What is Intellectual Disability<\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br>Intellectual Disability (ID) refers to the brain function is under slow or abnormal development and hence setting restrictions on learning and adaptation ability. Apart from intelligence, however, ID persons are no different from the able bodies.<br><br>ID is a permanent defect that cannot be cured. Fortunately, ID persons\u2019 potential can be explored and developed through education and training at an early stage.<br><br>There are numerous ID classification levels and the standard varies from country to country. In Hong Kong, ID persons are categorized as follows:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Category<\/td><td>IQ<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mild<\/td><td>50 \u2013 69<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Intermediate<\/td><td>25 \u2013 49<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Severe<\/td><td>25 or belo<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>2.<\/strong> <strong>Causes of Intellectual Disability<\/strong><br>The causes of intellectual disability can be categorized into prenatal and postnatal.<br>2.1 Prenatal causes include those that are caused before birth including:<br>&#8211; Abnormal genes<br>&#8211; Foetus infected by virus<br>&nbsp;<br>2.2 Postnatal causes refer to the ones after a baby was born including:<br>&#8211; Abnormal labour and delivery of the baby<br>&#8211; Appropriate treatment is not received during sickness<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>3. Characteristics of the Intellectually Disabled<\/strong><br>3.1 Learning<br>Compared with the able bodies, ID persons are weak in knowledge acquisition and comprehension and thus require a longer time to learn new things. For example, it may cost them 20 times or more to learn a movement that only costs 10 times for the able bodies. Under this circumstance, they can only learn things one by one.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Besides, other characteristics in learning are as follows:<\/strong><br>They can be easily distracted so it is hard for them to focus on and concentrate in doing one thing for a long time.<br>They have weak memory and require frequent reminder.<br>They possess weaker adaptive skills.<br>Their motion of learning relies on stimulation rather than self-motivation.<br>They are weak in understanding and comprehension so it is hard for them to perform abstract and logical analysis and thinking.<br>Their ability to mimic is lower than the able bodies.<br>&nbsp;<br>3.2 Appearance<br>Except those who are with Down Syndrome, their appearances are not different from the others.<br>&nbsp;<br>3.3 Emotion<br>They are very strict-forward and can be easily satisfied. They also love to meet new friends.<br>&nbsp;<br>3.4 Communication<br>They are rather weak in expressing themselves so we should use simple and short sentences to communicate with them.<br>&nbsp;<br>3.5 Behavior<br>As they are of weak judgement and lack self control, we should correct their misbehavior immediately.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attitude held towards ID Persons<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>1.<\/strong> <strong>Patience<\/strong><br>ID persons are rather slower than the able bodies in reacting to actions and words. Thus, we should give them time to absorb the idea, express verbally and finish the instruction with patience.<br><strong>2.<\/strong> <strong>Enthusiasm<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Our enthusiasm will encourage ID persons to perform better.<br><strong>3.<\/strong> <strong>Love and Care<\/strong><br>Coaches should be equipped with love and care to take care of ID athletes, especially to those with intermediate and severe grade of ID, who are weak in self-care and self-defense.<br><strong>4.<\/strong> <strong>Accepting Limitations<\/strong><br>Since most of the ID persons are of multi-disabilities such as autism and hearing loss, we should not jeer at them for their \u201cweird\u201d behaviour. This would make a negative impact on their confidence in learning, emotions and even social life.<br><strong>5.<\/strong> <strong>Justice<\/strong><br>We should treat ID persons equally regardless of their appearance.<br><strong>6.<\/strong> <strong>Accepting Uniqueness<\/strong><br>We should meet the need of ID persons according to their unique behaviours and living styles, which are formed by prenatal factors (eg. genes) and postnatal environment.<br><strong>7.<\/strong> <strong>Equal Opportunity<\/strong><br>ID persons are also members of the community. We should respect their rights and freedom so that they can enjoy a dignified life with equal opportunities.<br><strong>8.<\/strong> <strong>Offering Learning Opportunity<\/strong><br>We should provide ID persons with opportunities to learn from actual work (activities) and from working with us. Also, we should avoid helping them to finish their task\/assignment unless they are unable to do so because overprotection only encourages their dependence and inertia.<br><strong>9.<\/strong> <strong>Indoctrination of Righteous Knowledge<\/strong><br>We should teach ID persons righteousness as they often need guidance when making judgment. We should also keep our accusations in consistency to avoid any confusion.<br><strong>10.<\/strong> <strong>Setting Appropriate Expectation<\/strong><br>We have to be realistic and stay positive when anticipating progress for ID persons. Our goal is to boost up their morale to strive for the best within their capacity. Hence, our expectation should be set at an appropriate level instead of covering up or altering the defect they have.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key Points when Assisting the ID Persons in Learning<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Your refusal to an approaching ID person may make he or she feels uneasy.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>We should listen to ID persons patiently since they sometimes find it difficult to express their feelings.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>We should give ID persons adequate time to adapt to changes which they are usually scared of.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>We should ignore the misbehavior of ID persons but appreciate and reward to their righteous ones.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Instructions, which can be repeated with the same wordings, to ID persons should be clear and consistent.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>You should require ID persons to keep their promises and do not give up on this easily for they do not understand or forgot what you have said.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefits of Sports to ID P<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hksapid.dyndns.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}