Educational services and programs for students with abilities ranging from giftedness to MENTAL RETARDATION, and including various physical, emotional, or learning differences. Although the history of special education can be traced at l.. Read More
Health and Wellness | 06.19.09 | No Comments
Educational services and programs for students with abilities ranging from giftedness to MENTAL RETARDATION, and including various physical, emotional, or learning differences. Although the history of special education can be traced at l.. Read More
Health and Wellness | 06.11.09 | No Comments
Forceful shaking of an infant or young child by the arms, legs, chest, or shoulders can cause brain damage leading to MENTAL RETARDATION, speech and LEARNING DISABILITIES, paralysis, SEIZURES, hearing loss, and death. It may cause bleeding .. Read More
Health and Wellness | 05.31.09 | No Comments
Below-average intellectual functioning abilities as determined by intelligence quotient (IQ) testing, and low adaptive functioning at home or in a work environment. An individual is considered to have mental retardation if IQ is below 70-75.. Read More
Health and Wellness | 04.22.09 | No Comments
A lag in the development of communication skills, progressing more slowly than would be expected based on age, environment, or specific deprivation or disease. Children with LEARNING DISABILITY are likely to have language delays. Language d.. Read More
Health and Wellness | 04.6.09 | 1 Comment
A complex genetic disorder that includes short stature, MENTAL RETARDATION or LEARNING DISABILITY, incomplete sexual development, characteristic behavior problems, low muscle tone, and an involuntary urge to eat constantly. This, coupled wi.. Read More
Health and Wellness | 03.14.09 | 2 Comments
An inherited metabolic disease (one of the many possible INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM) that leads to MENTAL RETARDATION and other DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES if untreated in infancy. In phenylketonuria (PKU), an amino acid called phenylalanin.. Read More
Health and Wellness | 03.6.09 | No Comments
