intellectual disability

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Researchers analyzed outcomes for 262,852 children assessed for autism, 335,255 evaluated for ADHD, and 406,681 assessed for intellectual disability.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

In assessing how those standards play out in the context of intellectual disability, the Supreme Court made clear in 2014 that states could not use “IQ score as conclusive evidence of intellectual capacity.”

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

Clinicians might also be less frequently assigning other labels such as intellectual disability, formally referred to as mental retardation, some data suggest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

P now suffers from severe dystonic cerebral palsy, is effectively blind, has an intellectual disability, has epilepsy, can only communicate by crying and cannot be comforted when crying.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025

By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson