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Mental Retardation Information Center Disability Info: Mental Retardation Fact Sheet (FS8)Definition, causes, diagnosis, and information from the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities.

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Among people with intellectual disabilities, only about one in eight will score below 50 o

n IQ tests. A person with a more severe disability will need more intensive support and supervision his or her entire life. The limitations of cognitive function will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical child.

People with mental retardation may be described as having developmental disabilities, global developmental delay, or learning difficulties. The term "Mental retardation" has acquired pejorative and shameful connotations over the last few decades and is now used almost exclusively in in The United St

In England and Wales the Mental Health Act 1983 defines "mental impairment" and "severe mental impairment" as "a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes significant/severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned."

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Disability Info: Mental Retardation Fact Sheet (FS8)Definition, causes, diagnosis, and information from the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities. More

NICHCY Publications: Disability InformationDisability Information. NICHCY offers 14 fact sheets and 3 briefing papers on specific disabilities.. Mental Retardation (FS8). More

Mental Retardation and the Death PenaltyFor more information, read HRW's press release. "The Penry Penalty: Capital Punishment and Offenders with Mental Retardation" by Emily Fabrycki Reed;. More

those with mental retardation," said Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director of the Death Penalty. Information Center. "There is no doubt that there is now a. More

Intellectual Disability / Mental Retardation, DD, NCBDDD, CDCInformation on mental retardation. Provided by the US Centers for. Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. More

Developmental Disabilities, NCBDDD, CDCInformation on developmental disabilities. Provided by the US Centers for Disease. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. More

Mental retardation in Finland - Finnish Information Center on. Mental retardation affects about 0.6 % of the finnish population (IQ less than 70). There are some rare disorders, like AGU, INCL, Salla disease and Cohen. More

Links on Mental RetardationFinnish Information Center on Mental Retardation (in Finnish). English Links on Mental Retardation. This page has removed. Try Mental Reardation Directory. More

ERIC - Education Resources Information CenterERIC: Education Resources Information Center Skip main navigation. . Commentary on Simon and Lichten's "Defining Mental Retardation: A Matter of Life and. More

ERIC - Education Resources Information CenterERIC: Education Resources Information Center Skip main navigation. Source:. American Journal on Mental Retardation, v112 n3 p207 220 May 2007. More

National Rehabilitation Information CenterThe National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is a library and information. For more information on National Mental Retardation Awareness Month,. More

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As behavior is involved, these are not necessarily permanent conditions: they are defined for the purpose of authorising detention in hospital or guardianship. However, English statute law uses "mental impairment" elsewhere in a less well-defined manner-e.g. to allow exemption from taxes-implying that mental retardation without any behavioural problems is what is meant. Mental Impairment is scheduled to be removed from the Act when it is amended in 2008.

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