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Developmental-versus-Difference controversy is a debate regarding the developmental progression of children with mental impairments. The developmental position argues that all children, reg ardless of intellectual impairments, progress through the same developmental stages in the same sequence, but at different rates. The difference position argues that the development of children with mental impairments proceeds in a different, less sequential, and less organized fashion than that of children without impairments.