They estimate that the exposure in these settings causes
mild mental retardation in roughly six out of every 1,000 people.
Not exact matches
Other proposed changes run the gamut from eliminating the term «
mental retardation» — to be replaced with a new «intellectual disability» category — to introducing diagnoses such as «psychosis risk syndrome» and «
mild neurocognitive disorder,» which are designed to catch patients
in the early stages of a disorder.
Cereblon's normal function is unknown, but mutations
in the gene encoding it are implicated
in mild mental retardation.
This causes only
mild thalassemia, but because other genes are deleted as well, there are additional problems — such as birth defects and
mental retardation — that do not occur
in most thalassemias.
Children with even
mild iodine deficiency can suffer from stunted growth,
mental retardation, lowered IQ, problems
in movement, speech or hearing.
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.