Would someone with an IQ of 85-89 be borderline retarded?Would they have any signifigant limitations?

Answer 1

IQ score alone does not say anything about a person being intellectually impaired. As a matter of fact, 85-89 is not a range that is of major concern based on this alone.

Unless accompanied by poor achievements in life, weak adaptive living skills, and poor developmental milestones, nobody can even say the person is a borderline case if intellectual impairment at all.

Answer 2

No a person with that IQ if done by a qualified professional would be considered on the low side of normal. It might take them a little longer to understand things and to but things to gether cohesively. But as someone else said the person should be evaluated by a professional for learning disabilities. My daughter was tested at 90 and said that she was fine just on the low side of average. When she was tested by a Nero-psychologist she tested at 120 and her work IQ was 90, That's when I was able to get them to realize that she had a learning disability and we found out that she had several the main two are dyslexia and processing issues. I now have her in a private school for the learning disabled and this year her first in high school she has an average of over 90 all year so far. Unless this person has been evaluated by a professional and someone familiar with learning disabilities don't take what has been said at face value. Get a second evaluation to make sure that the person gets the services that they need.

Answer 3

Actually, someone could test that low and be intelligent, but they might just have reading problems. It depends on how the test was done. I know someone who has a graduate degree but once tested with an IQ of 89... she had a learning disability and got help through Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. She listened to her textbooks and now does very well professionally. So, IQ tests are not all they're supposed to be.

Answer 4

you might want to consider that you're confusing below-average IQ with developmentally disabled...average IQ is 100 but whatever 100 is changes from year to year...why? because it's an average...Mensa takes the top 2% but who can say whether it's 115 or 111 (taking the 85 or 89 above the line)

I would expect IQ to be higher in a Masters-Degree program...I would expect IQ to be even higher in a Doctoral program...just so happens...the average IQ gets pretty "up there" in the rarified air of advanced academia...

the limitations depend on the type of IQ test...the Stanford-Binet (I think) measures the rapidity with which someone can make word associations...there's a British one that tests ability to do different kinds of reasoning without having all that bounding around impair reasoning in tackling an initial problem...the Wechsler (I think) tests a different kind of reasoning--picture associations--ability to see patterns in blocks and reproduce them...for Intertel (they take the top 1%) 10 pts is deducted to come up with something that's equivalent to the Stanford-Binet...the Wechsler might surprise you...someone who is a whirlwind with word associations might not do so well on a Wechsler...someone who learns better from life than from school might get bogged down in seeing the problem and reading it, whereas IQ tests are generally written by graduate students in Psychology for graduate students in Psychology...

this is not to say that IQ tests might yield vastly different results but at what point in a person's life does he or she stumble--concrete reasoning (before age13) or the ability to realize that a ball you hide behind a sofa isn't extant--doesn't exist any more (before age 6)...cats are generally considered to have the reasoning ability of a 3 yr old...

you might want to research the phenomenon of Downs' Syndrome to see if there are any parallels...children born with this malady might be able to focus and take the bus...you will know what the person can or can't do and take it from there...

great question

Answer 5

Not borderline retarded, but in the low-average range of intelligence

Answer 6

80-90 is considered as "Dull" but not really retarded. They would not understand as quickly as others, but could still function by themselves in normal society.