They also used World Health Organization spreadsheets «that would tell us how many people would develop cardiovascular disease or
mild mental retardation from those levels,» sayslead author Kevin Chatham - Stephens, a pediatrician at The Mount Sinai Hospital who focuses on environmental health.
The study incorporated a group sociometric measure known as How I Feel Toward Others (HIFTO) that assesses the social status and attitudes of nondisabled students and students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, and
mild mental retardation in both regular and special education elementary - level classrooms.
Cereblon's normal function is unknown, but mutations in the gene encoding it are implicated in
mild mental retardation.
But by his fourth birthday he had begun to eat compulsively and was clearly suffering from
mild mental retardation.
Doris Helge, executive director of the council, said that rural special educators may be required to work with students with a variety of mild handicaps, such as learning disabilities, behavior disorders, and
mild mental retardation, yet many states require a teacher to be separately certified and trained to teach each one of those handicapping conditions.
Mild disabilities is the term used to encompass mainly four disabling conditions: learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders,
mild mental retardation, and other health impairments, as defined by the U.S. Department of Education.
Researchers studying classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) in inclusive classrooms with students who have
mild mental retardation and their general education peers have found that for both groups, academic achievement and academic engagement was higher when spelling instruction was delivered using CWPT than when it was delivered using teacher - led instruction.
Moderate learning difficulties in the UK are broadly comparable with moderate to mild intellectual disabilities (Australia / New Zealand),
mild mental retardation or educable mentally retarded (US / Canada) and mild general learning disabilities in Ireland.