Sentence examples for considered retarded from inspiring English sources

People with I.Q.'s that low are generally considered retarded.

But in her case, the misunderstandings were catastrophic: her hearing impairment was undiagnosed for years, a problem that affected her schoolwork so severely that she was considered retarded.

Anyone who recorded an I.Q. of 70 or less before age 18 and had "significant limitations in adaptive functioning" would be considered retarded.

People called "mad" were incarcerated; people considered unfit to bear children were forcibly sterilized; people considered "retarded" were lobotomized.

The child once considered retarded is in fact bright, they say — a real striver — and will soon be ready for full-scale mainstreaming.

Well, I'm sure there are people that dumb, but they're considered retarded or slow not stupid.

In the following sections, we consider retarded SDE driven by an fBm in the form: d X ( t ) = ( ∫ − τ 0 X ( t + θ ) ρ ( d θ ) ) d t + σ ( t ) d W H ( t ), t > 0 (2.1).

Half the population of 1917 would be considered mentally retarded by today's measurements, Professor Nisbett says.

A person is considered mentally retarded under the North Carolina measure if his I.Q. is below 70 and he has significant difficulty in performing basic functions.

We, at least, can see perfectly well that it isn't belittling disadvantage: it's attacking the crass attitudes to disadvantage of people who perhaps themselves deserve to be considered emotionally retarded.

A person is considered mentally retarded under the new North Carolina measure if his I.Q. is below 70 and he has significant difficulty in performing basic functions of life, including communicating, taking care of himself, living at home or working.