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Mental retardation (also called mental handicap[1] and, as defined by the UK Mental Health Act 1983, mental impairment and severe mental impairment[2]) is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as an adult. One common criterion for diagnosis of mental retardation is a tested intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 or below. People with mental retardation are ...
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Resources
- (National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS)
- Accommodations for People with Mental Retardation (Job Accommodation Network)
- Aging with Developmental Disabilities: Women's Health Issues (Arc of the United States)
- Children Who Are Mentally Retarded (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
- El Retraso Mental (National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, ED)
- Facts About Fragile X Syndrome (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Clearinghouse, NICHD, NIH, HHS)
- Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy Increases Children's Risk for Mental Retardation (Office on Smoking and Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS)
- Mental Retardation (National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, ED)
- Mental retardation (Google Health)
- Mental Retardation (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Mental Retardation: Learning How to Help Your Child (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Questions and Answers about Down Syndrome (National Down Syndrome Society)
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