Adaptive behavior

Adaptive behavior, also called as adaptive function, refers to one's competence in social, conceptual, and practical skills, which are learned throughout development and are performed in response to common problems and simple/complex tasks as well as expectations from the community and society. These behavioral responses become progressively more complex with age. People with neurodevelopmental disorders are more innately predisposed to premature adaptive function than neuropsychiatric disorders than those unaffected. Several validated tools are useful for assessing limitations in adaptive behavior.

A completely-grown brain unleashes its abilities in age-appropriate mental calculation and emotional management.

Intellectual functioning: Intellectual functioning is generally called intelligence and includes a wide range of mental activities such as the ability of logical reasoning and practical intelligence (problem-solving), ability in learning, verbal skills, and so on. It manifests and expresses itself through a numerous set of capabilities, behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. In other words, intellectual functioning is definable as the global ability that allows the individual to understand reality and interact with it.

Adaptive behavior: These disabilities express as lacking competence in social, conceptual, and practical skills.

Conceptual skills
Conceptual skills include the ability to understand time, finance, and language.

Number concepts
Number concepts

Social skills
Social skills include interpersonal skills, social responsibility, self-esteem, gullibility, naivety, resolution of social problems, and the ability to follow the rules of the society and to obey the laws.

Practical skills
Practical skills include the ability to use tools, carry out activities of daily living, and interact with other people.