intellectually disabled
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If enacted, the change will require intellectually disabled young people like Burton as well as very elderly people to file extensive monthly reports if they want to continue their benefits even at the reduced level.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
In addition, Pittman is caught in a legal morass about whether the Supreme Court’s 2002 prohibition on executing the intellectually disabled applies retroactively.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
But the youngest of the group, Fiorella, remains behind bars despite claims that he is intellectually disabled and that his case was mishandled.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2025
On a cold winter’s day in June 2002, an intellectually disabled teenage girl disappeared from the New South Wales Riverina without a trace.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2024
An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County, Alabama, Ms. Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
