intellectual disability
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Grealish has also extended his role as principal ambassador of Special Olympics Great Britain - an organisation that provides sports training and competition for children and adults with an intellectual disability.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 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
The research team also highlighted an unexpected finding: some participants showed only psychiatric symptoms, even though GRIN2A changes are usually linked to epilepsy or intellectual disability.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 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
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
