intellectual disability

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Researchers analyzed outcomes for 262,852 children assessed for autism, 335,255 evaluated for ADHD, and 406,681 assessed for intellectual disability.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

In assessing how those standards play out in the context of intellectual disability, the Supreme Court made clear in 2014 that states could not use “IQ score as conclusive evidence of intellectual capacity.”

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

Clinicians might also be less frequently assigning other labels such as intellectual disability, formally referred to as mental retardation, some data suggest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

"We are talking, I think, more about individuals with no intellectual disability," she says.

From BBC • May 2, 2025

In 2002, there were about a hundred people with mental retardation facing execution when the Court banned the death penalty for people with intellectual disability.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson