Intellectual disability
Intellectual disability, a term that is replacing "mental retadation" in common and professional useage, refers to persons exhibiting impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning manifested during the developmental period (before 22 years of age).
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Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics
Robert Hodapp, Ph.D.
Professor of Special Education; Director of Research, UCEDD
Elise McMillan, J.D.
Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emerita
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