Don't know why the agency is so obsessed with proving the intellectual disability started prior to age 22. If you have an IQ of 58, what difference does it make when the disorder was established?
11:45: because onset during the developmental period is part of the diagnostic criteria for an intellectual disorder (formerly known as mental retardation).
Social security apparently blocked this item and its links at 850am as unauthorized use of government equipment. I always considered my visits to this blog as quite work-related.
Your scenario would be covered under listing 12.02. Low IQ scores could be used as pretty solid evidence of cognitive decline. Best if the claimant had pre-injury IQ scores, but even a history of normal functioning and then extreme cognitive impairment, consistent with the low IQ scores, would be a good argument.
Additional guidance would help, especially for formulating residual functional capacity findings in such claims. More than a few ALJs oversimplify by translating all low results on such tests to "limited to simple work" in their RFC determinations, instead of exploring what the results really mean in terms of a person's limitations.
Don't know why the agency is so obsessed with proving the intellectual disability started prior to age 22. If you have an IQ of 58, what difference does it make when the disorder was established?
ReplyDelete11:45: because onset during the developmental period is part of the diagnostic criteria for an intellectual disorder (formerly known as mental retardation).
ReplyDeleteShould they really care if somebody has a 58 IQ after an accident at age 40? I think so.
ReplyDeleteSocial security apparently blocked this item and its links at 850am as unauthorized use of government equipment. I always considered my visits to this blog as quite work-related.
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ReplyDeleteYour scenario would be covered under listing 12.02. Low IQ scores could be used as pretty solid evidence of cognitive decline. Best if the claimant had pre-injury IQ scores, but even a history of normal functioning and then extreme cognitive impairment, consistent with the low IQ scores, would be a good argument.
Scribd has been a blocked resource in the past. Likely is again.
ReplyDeleteAdditional guidance would help, especially for formulating residual functional capacity findings in such claims. More than a few ALJs oversimplify by translating all low results on such tests to "limited to simple work" in their RFC determinations, instead of exploring what the results really mean in terms of a person's limitations.
ReplyDeleteHa. I kept scrolling, certain that this was a jab at USA's Dear Leader.
ReplyDeleteAlas, it wasn't.