Mentally retarded definition

Mentally retarded means a disability, originating before the age of 18 years, characterized concurrently by (i) significantly subaverage intellectual functioning as demonstrated by performance on a standardized measure of intellectual functioning administered in conformity with accepted professional practice, that is at least two standard deviations below the mean and (ii) significant limitations in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills.
Mentally retarded means a disability, originating before the age of 18 years, characterized
Mentally retarded means that term as defined in the mental health code, Act No. 258 of the Public Acts of 1974.

Examples of Mentally retarded in a sentence

  • Mentally retarded inmates with minimal to mild impairment in ability to function within the general inmate population are assigned to institutions having impaired inmate services.


More Definitions of Mentally retarded

Mentally retarded means a child meeting the definition in Iowa Code section 222.2(5).
Mentally retarded means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning in at least two (2) of the following skill areas: communication,
Mentally retarded means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations
Mentally retarded means a person who has significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning which exists concurrently with impairment in adaptive behavior and which originates before the age of 18 years.
Mentally retarded means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning in at least two (2) of the following skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social or interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, functional academic skills, work, leisure, health and safety. The onset of significant subaverage general intelligence functioning and significant limitations in adaptive functioning must occur before age eighteen (18) years.
Mentally retarded means the individual has significantly subaverage 40 intellectual functioning as evidenced by an intelligence quotient of 70or below on an
Mentally retarded as used in this section means a juvenile with a full scale intelligent quotient of seventy (70) or below.