retardation

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June Jackson Christmas, a psychiatrist who broke barriers as a Black woman by heading New York City’s Department of Mental Health and Retardation Services under three mayors, died on Sunday in the Bronx.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

The Arc was founded in the 1950s by parents of disabled children, and Kennedy created a Presidential Panel on Mental Retardation to create momentum for important changes in national policy.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2023

Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously affirmed a lower-court finding of contempt against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its interference with the use of electronic stimulus devices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016

In October 1963, the passage of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act increased support for public mental health services.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Retardation of the putrefactive process has been noticed in bodies some years under water.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)