Stratification will likely encompass common travel distance/time thresholds for seeking disability services within the region (eg within town, within 50 kilometres of service, 50-100 kilometoeservicervice, > 100 kilometres of service [ 31]).
And according to court records, his IQ was around the threshold for intellectual disability.
Prieto's defense has repeatedly argued that he has cognitive impairment, in part from malnourishment as a poor child growing up in war-torn El Salvador, and that his IQ is below the threshold for intellectual disability.
According to court records, Dassey has an IQ of somewhere between 69 and 73 — an IQ of 70 is often considered the threshold for intellectual disability — and the tape shows police posing detailed questions to Dassey, who replies with short, often one-word answers.
His IQ is 70, the threshold for determining disability, though that comes with a margin of error and in current practice should be viewed in conjunction with other observations of "adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills," according to the American Assn.
Because the eligibility thresholds for SSA's disability programs are strict, many of the individuals we study likely still have significant disabilities; our results do not provide any evidence on the broader health of these individuals.
Higher thresholds for granting a disability pension to younger persons and for those having experienced unemployment can reflect a demand for extended rehabilitation measures for these groups.
Increased Bayley-3 cut-off thresholds for classifying severe disability are recommended when comparing studies in this clinical group using Bayley-2 scores.
But she now realises she should be more worried about the PIP thresholds for what constitutes a disability.
We used established consensus thresholds for improvement in Roland-Morris disability questionnaire scores at three and twelve months to derive NNTs for improvements and for benefits (improvements gained+deteriorations prevented).
