define mentally retarded.
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mental disorder Mental retardation is a relative term. Its meaning depends on what society demands of the individual in learning, skills, and social responsibility. Many people who are considered developmentally challenged in the complex modern world would get along normally in a simpler society.
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- : incapacitated by illness, injury, or wounds; broadly: physically or mentally impaired. Dictionary: Definition of disabled.
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- See also: Developmental disability. Intellectual disability (ID), also called intellectual development disorder (IDD) or general learning disability, and formerly known as mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.n general, people with intellectual disability have an IQ below 70, but clinical discretion may be necessary for individuals who have a somewhat higher IQ but severe impairment in adaptive functioning. It is formally diagnosed by an assessment of IQ and adaptive behavior.
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- 1 The programme offers intermediate care for the mentally retarded. 2  There are laws there to protect the mentally ill, but now and then someone does slip through the net.  She's the warden of a home for mentally handicapped people.
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2006 Oklahoma Code - Title 43A. â Mental Health Persons With Serious Mental Illness Pages F 168 of 172. PERSONS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS. Definition. The seriously mentally ill are defined as persons who, as the result of a mental disorder, exhibit. emotional, cognitive, or behavioral functioning which is so impaired as to interfere substantially.
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mental illness mental disorder n. See mental illness. mental illness n. Any of various disorders characterized chiefly by abnormal behavior or an inability to function socially, including diseases of the mind and personality and certain diseases of the brain. Also called mental disease, mental disorder.
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- Before I begin, a definition. Emotional retardation is the inability or refusal to express, detect, or react to emotions, in either oneself or in others, or simply the conscious denial of emotions altogether. As you can see, emotional retardation is a very broad topic. Almost everyone is emotionally retarded, in some fashion or another.
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- Mental retardation: The condition of having an IQ measured as below 70 to 75 and significant delays or lacks in at least two areas of adaptive skills. Mental retardation is present from childhood. Between 2 and 3 percent of the general population meet the criteria for mental retardation.
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- retarded adjective. › having a ​slower ​mental development than other ​people of the same ​age: ​mentally/​emotionally retarded Note: Because retarded has sometimes been used as an insult, the term is now less often used to describe people with slow mental development.
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- Mental retardation (MR) is a condition diagnosed before age 18, usually in infancy or prior to birth, that includes below-average general intellectual function, and a lack of the skills necessary for daily living. When onset occurs at age 18 or after, it is called dementia, which can coexist with an MR diagnosis.ental retardation (MR) is a condition diagnosed before age 18, usually in infancy or prior to birth, that includes below-average general intellectual function, and a lack of the skills necessary for daily living. When onset occurs at age 18 or after, it is called dementia, which can coexist with an MR diagnosis.
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New Terminology for Mental Retardation in DSM-5 and ICD-11 The ICD-11 working group proposes replacing mental retardation with intellectual developmental disorders (IDDs), a term it defines as 'a group of developmental conditions characterized by significant impairment of cognitive functions, which are associated with limitations of learning, adaptive behavior and skills'.
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Changes to Name, Definition of Mental Retardation Raise Concerns That manual is expected to use intellectual developmental disorder in its 11th version, said James Harris, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the American Psychiatric Association group responsible for updating the mental retardation diagnosis.
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- Down syndrome is the most common cause of mild to moderate mental retardation and the mental and physical medical problems that often come with it. It was named after John Langdon Down, the first physician to identify the syndrome.
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mentally fragile meaning, mentally fragile definition | English Cobuild dictionary 2 adj Mental means relating to the state or the health of a person's mind. The mental state that had created her psychosis was no longer present., ...mental health problems. ...an inmate who is mentally disturbed., ...the needs of the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped. 3 adj A mental act is one that involves only thinking and not physical action.
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Mental disorder Mental disorder. Emotional disabilities redirects here. For other uses, see Emotional disability. A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a diagnosis by a mental health professional of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode.
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Mental Retardation Down Syndrome. Down Syndrome is a leading cause of mental retardation. Down Syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an extra chromosome. Students with Down Syndrome have distinct physical features.tudents with Down Syndrome exhibit a wide range of behaviors and abilities, however, most have some degree of mental retardation. Language and motor development are usually slow, and speech articulation may be poor.
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Executing the Mentally Retarded In a section of the report called “Mental Retardation and Criminal Culpability,” the report also observes that a retarded defendant may be unable to understand the seriousness of the situation—a circumstance that can make it difficult or impossible for the defendant to assist in his or her own defense.
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- The word is disabled. That's what we should use to describe anyone with intellectual OR physical disabilities. Retard is from Mental Retardation - it is specific to those with intellectual disabilities but not physical.
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- (American Association on Mental Retardation -- AAMR; now called the AmericanAssociation of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders.)intellectual abilitiesreasoning, planning, solving problems, thinking abstractly, comprehending complex ideas, learning quickly, learning fromexperience.ntellectual Disability. Intellectual disability (formerly Mental Retardation): A disability characterized by significant limitations both inintellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills.This disability originates before age 18.
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New Terminology for Mental Retardation in DSM-5 and ICD-11 Mental retardation replaced older terms such as feeblemindedness, idiocy, and mental subnormality that had become pejorative. Now, over 5 decades later, the term 'mental retardation' is being eliminated for similar reasons. The APA's fifth revision of its DSM-5 and the WHO in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (lCD-11) will revise their terminology. This is consistent with the abandonment of the term by medical and educational professions and advocacy groups over recent years.
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- See also: Developmental disability. Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability, and mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.
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- im·be·cile. n. 1. A person who is considered foolish or stupid. 2. A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision.
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- In legal terms, the Infirm Persons Act defines a mentally. incompetent person as someone whose mind is affected. either from birth, disease, injury or by a disorder to such. a degree that they require care, supervision, and control. for their own protection, the protection of others, or the.
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Describing Disability 1 Mental retardation is a medical term to describe a person with a condition such as Down syndrome. 2  Birth defect: Most people with disabilities do not see their disability as a defect. 3  It doesn’t matter if they were born with their disability or developed the disability later in life. Many people see this word as a “put-down” to people with disabilities and don’t like to hear it. 2  Retarded: Retarded (or retard) is a term that should never be used to label someone. 3  Mental retardation is a medical term to describe a person with a condition such as Down syndrome.
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- mental illness. noun mental ill·ness. Legal Definition of mental illness. 1 : mental disease. 2 : a mental condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological and often social functioning of the individual —called also mental disorder.
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Mental retardation Intellectual functioning level is defined by standardized tests that measure the ability to reason in terms of mental age (intelligence quotient or IQ). Mental retardation is defined as IQ score below 70-75.Adaptive skills are the skills needed for daily life.ow IQ scores and limitations in adaptive skills are the hallmarks of mental retardation. Aggression, self-injury, and mood disorders are sometimes associated with the disability. The severity of the symptoms and the age at which they first appear depend on the cause.