An adult with mental retardation who commits a murder should ... we may seriously question the retributive value of executing a person who has no comprehension of why he has been singled out ...

The verb "retard" means to hinder or to make something slow. "Mental retardation" was introduced as a medical term for people ...

This book reviews theoretical and empirical work in the developmental approach to mental retardation. Armed with methods derived from the study of typically developing children, developmentalists have ...

A team of Harvard doctors has discovered a new hereditary disease, caused by an enzyme deficiency, which leads to mental retardation. Children afflicted with the disease exhibit a built-in ...

The article appeared just as President Clinton was pushing for a new policy of tolerance of homosexual people in the armed ... the most common form of mental retardation. After Down's syndrome ...