Mental Disability
People who have below normal learning capacity and slow learning skills are said to be having mental disability. Such people have developing disabilities, which is also called as delayed puberty. People with mental disability can have problems in speaking, difficulty in remembering things. They can also have trouble in understanding rules and in thinking logically. They can have trouble in understanding the difference between what is good and what is bad. People who have IQ level below 50.
It is difficult to find out if a child is having mild mental disability. Such people have slow growing ability rather than calling it a disability. There are person with moderate disability where a person with such disability can live with support of parents. In some cases, such disabled people need to join the special institutions or schools. There are intellectually disabled person where the person severely needs supervision.
These disabilities could be due to genetic conditions or problems during pregnancy or during birth. Disability is treated separately from disease. There is no cure for mental disability since birth. However, some teaching can result into people learning to do many things.
Some terms used for mental disability are cretin, idiot, moron, etc.
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