PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | intellectual disability |
| Phenotype | C0025362|mental retardation |
| Sentences | 4 |
| PubMedID- 23537357 | This article discusses the history of the grassroots movement led by self-advocates and their families to replace the stigmatizing term "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" in federal statute. |
| PubMedID- 23537358 | The current international consensus appears to be replacing "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability". |
| PubMedID- 26107854 | Part of the motivation for encouraging elite stakeholders-like governments, professionals, and advocacy groups-to replace the language of "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" (id) is the belief that elite endorsement could undermine negative attitudes and influence the public to follow suit. |
| PubMedID- 23923138 | We are replacing the term "mental retardation'' with "intellectual disability'' in our listing of impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate claims involving mental disorders in adults and children under titles ii and xvi of the social security act (act) and in other appropriate sections of our rules. |
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