Self-Concept Pattern in Adolescent Students with Intellectual Disability

Self-concept pattern of people with intellectual disability is characterized by cognitive deficits, labile affects, and motivation immaturity, poor coping initiatives, competence overestimation, unrealistic self-image. Educational recuperative strategies must be designed and implemented by special education teachers in order to ameliorate the self-concept in adolescent students with intellectual disability and, therefore, to facilitate their full or partial mainstreaming in regular education settings. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.