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"Gifted and Intellectual Disabled Children's Social Competence Profile * Saeed Rezayi, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology and Education Tehran University Objective: The present study has been carried out to compare the social competence in two group students with Intellectual Disability (ID) and Gifted.
Keywords: Gifted, Intellectual Disability, Social Competence Intellectual disability (also referred to as mental retardation, developmental disability) is a condition which shows itself as limitations in the person’s ability to learn about and solve the problems of daily life and to be independent in the activities required for daily living(Claussen,2012).
Children who are gifted have significant social and emotional difficulties appear to be fading with more and more empirical evidence that they show good if not excellent social competence (Sayler and Brookshire, 2010).
Social competence is the foundation upon which expectations for future interactions with others are built and upon which children develop perceptions of their own behavior (Shah& Morgan, 2010).
Additional problems are present in children are diagnosed with mental disability show significant impairment in social interaction including problems with double interaction and nonverbal understanding and difficulties with social reciprocity (Baroon-Cohen, 2009).
Reviews of the literature indicate that children who are diagnosed with ID show significant impairment in social interaction likes; nonverbal understanding, difficulties in double interaction, social reciprocity, make or initiation communication, delays in spoken, play-both with peers and individually and also difficulties in understanding other person mental state and how people differ in beliefs, desires, and needs (Shattuck,2011).
Emotional recognition in children with mental disability is another area that is particularly interesting and important for social competence (Chudley et al."