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mental handicap

noun

  1. a general or specific intellectual disability, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development


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Usage

Nowadays both mental handicap and mentally handicapped are considered to have inappropriate and negative connotations. The phrases learning difficulties and a person with learning difficulties are used instead

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Derived Forms

  • mentally handicapped, adjective

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