MADISON — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will sign a Republican bill removing the term "mental retardation" from five state agencies' administrative codes even though he's already issued an executive ...

The goal of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month is to increase the public's awareness and understanding of people who have mental retardation and other developmental ...

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The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. New data published in Science points to a new mechanism to account for some cases of non-syndromic mental retardation: a mutation ...

Many families and advocates despise it, and call it “The R-Word”. Still, the term “mentally retarded” is often attached to diagnosis, services, and legislation regarding people with cognitive ...

Scientists at last may have determined how mental retardation develops in people with fragile X syndrome, a condition caused by the inherited loss of an essential protein, termed the fragile X mental ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Since average scores on particular IQ tests rise a few points every 3 or 4 years, those tests become obsolete after a couple of decades. In order to reset the average score to 100, harder IQ tests are ...

Dear Extra Credit: In your March 22 response to my letter about the Montgomery County learning centers issue ["For Reporters, a Remedial Course in Learning Centers," Montgomery Extra], you said that ...