Should IQ of 79 be Intellectual Disability?

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Should we make diagnosis Intellectual Disability broad until IQ of 79? I think that IQ of of 70-79 means you have milder problems with Intellectual and adaptive functioning. An IQ of 69 means you have problems with Intellectual functioning.



From my point of view:

Milder Intellectual Disability: IQ of 70–79 (Although Borderline Intellectual Functioning is 70–85)

Mild Intellectual Disability: IQ 69–59

Moderate Intellectual Disability: IQ 58–49

Severe Intellectual Disability: IQ 46–39

Profound Intellectual Disability IQ 38–29 to 28–0

Borderline intellectual functioning - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderlin ... unctioning)
It is time to bring borderline intellectual functioning back into the main fold of classification systems (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967780/)
Clinical Characteristics of Intellectual Disabilities (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK332877/)

Who is this "We" of whom you post, and why is your suggestion any better than the standards now in place?

It think that I put explanation to why.

I also put sources there here as well.

Placing an arbitrary number on intellectual ability or disability is less important than witnessing what a person actually does with the intellect they have.

That is interesting. I understood.