intellectual disability
a developmental disorder characterized in varying degrees by significant limitations on intellectual abilities, such as learning, problem solving, and reasoning, and on adaptive abilities such as social and practical skills: the diagnostic term intellectual disability replaced the older designation mental retardation in the 2010s.Abbreviation: ID
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An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, there may have been fewer people with intellectual disability than there are now.
Rudy is also intellectually delayed—an IQ test placed him at the borderline of intellectual disability.
Nay, though one went from the dead, he could not bring it home to her that unsatisfied sex- uality is an intellectual disability.
The Unexpurgated Case Against Women Suffrage | Almroth E. WrightFor some of the main historic facts on intellectual disability, see Westermarck, pp. 264-277.
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