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 2009, a state law changed the name of the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Department of Developmental Disabilities.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2016

Selections under the heading "Isolation and Retardation" indicate conditions responsible for the arrest of mental and personal growth.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra