Education Week

Changes to Name, Definition of Mental Retardation Raise Concerns

Another proposed change to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is raising concerns, this time involving the new definition and relabeling of mental retardation. There are already ...
The Texas Tribune

Justices debate definition of intellectual disability in Texas death row case

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Disability Scoop

Supreme Court To Consider What Defines Intellectual Disability

How should states decide if someone convicted of a crime has an intellectual disability, when the answer means life or death? This spring the Supreme Court will wade back into these murky waters, 12 ...
Argus Leader

'Intellectual disability' definition at the center of South Dakota death penalty case

CANTON – A man at the center of South Dakota's most high-profile pending death penalty case is now fighting to take the death penalty off the table in his trial, based on whether he is deemed to have ...