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
That is why the relevant clinical authorities all agree that an individual with an IQ score above 70 may properly be diagnosed with intellectual disability if significant limitations in adaptive functioning also exist.”
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
By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
