"developmental disability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to any type of disability that is diagnosed during childhood and affects learning, behavior, and physical functioning. For example, "Daniel was diagnosed with a developmental disability when he was four years old."
Results: Assessment tools and interventions were demonstrated to be feasible in a population with mild to moderate intellectual and developmental disability.
Mental retardation or developmental disability qualifies you".
"Sheila's developmental disability (mental retardation) is mild, while her mental illness is severe," a Harbor official wrote to a judge.
The office's first commissioner, Thomas Coughlin, was the parent of a child with a developmental disability.
There's no other show that depicts a black lesbian with a developmental disability, raised by white parents and incarcerated for reasons that remain unknown.
This is strange, because it's difficult to see how you would define Alzheimer's disease as a developmental disability and thus qualify for inclusion in the journal.
Several states have dropped the phrase from their agency titles in favor of "intellectual disability," "developmental disability" or, in some cases, "disabilities".
The National Autistic Society calls it "a lifelong developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around them".
A man possessed of normal intelligence and above-normal politeness, Mr. Goldwire, 28, has a "developmental disability with autistic features," his school records show.
The danger is that those with developmental disability, mental illness or other stigmatised conditions are unconsciously seen as alien, different from us.
"But now we are seeing children suffering from a complex of other problems as well — substance abuse, mental health issues, developmental disability".
