March 27, 2019; Silver Spring, MD:
AAIDD is pleased to make available translations of the three-pronged definitional/diagnostic criteria for intellectual disability on its website.
The members of the AAIDD International Interest Network initiated a project to translate the criteria into languages other than English, and those translations are now available. AAIDD thanks those who performed the translations and those who reviewed the translations for fidelity.
Translators:
Chinese (Traditional)
Chun-yu (Caya) Chiu, PhD, FAAIDD, National Taiwan Normal University
Dutch
Jos Van Loon, PhD, University College, Ghent/E-QUAL, The Netherlands, and
Ilse Goethals,PhD, University College, Ghent/E-QUAL, The Netherlands
Italian
Giulia Balboni, PhD, FAAIDD, University Of Perugia, and
Alice Bacherini, University Of Perugia
Japanese
Mayumi Hagiwara, MS, University of Kansas
Korean
Hyojeon Seo, PhD, Kongju National University, South Korea, and
Chung eun Lee, MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Portuguese
Cristina Simões, MA, University College, Ghent
Russian
Elena Morgacheva, PhD, Moscow City Teachers Training University
Spanish
Laura Gómez, PhD, Universidad de Oviedo
Cristina Mumbardó, PhD, Universitat Ramon Llull
Reviewers: Aesha John, Cristina Simões, Mayumi Hagiwara, Giulia Balboni, Laura Gómez, and Cheng eun Lee
See the translations here.
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