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intellectual disability
[ in-tl-ek-choo-uhl dis-uh-bil-i-tee ]
noun
- 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. : ID
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of intellectual disability1
Example Sentences
P now suffers from severe dystonic cerebral palsy, is effectively blind, has an intellectual disability, has epilepsy, can only communicate by crying and cannot be comforted when crying.
Nor did it set clear guidelines to help legislatures and courts determine what should count as an intellectual disability.
The result is that, as law professor Sheri Lynn Johnson and her colleagues argued in 2022, the court’s “ostensibly categorical ban has been far less than categorical, as many other persons that should be ineligible for the death penalty have had their assertions of intellectual disability rejected.â€
It listed a number of "targeted disabilities": "Hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
Trump said the hiring guidance for the FAA's diversity and inclusion programme included preference for those with disabilities involving "hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
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