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The Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.)

Movement presses to drop ‘retardation’ from clinical terminology

Ginese is among a growing number of people across the nation working to halt use of the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded” and replace them with the terms “intellectual disability” and “an individual with an intellectual disability.”

Filed Under: intellectual disability, language, public policy

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