Sentence examples for impaired intellectual functioning from inspiring English sources

A possible explanation for this discrepancy might be that the above mentioned study group included single-setters with an IQ below 80, whereas in our study all the subjects were repeaters and the IQ cutoff point was 70 or below, which generally indicates a significantly impaired intellectual functioning.

We report a high prevalence of intellectual impairment in this cohort and confirm and propose several risk factors for impaired intellectual functioning but could not identify a typical neurocognitive domain altered with HIV infection.

Techniques adopted to maintain motivation (e.g. lowering task difficulty to increase success rate in low scoring children) led to better performance, which suggests that the task itself is not sufficiently engaging of attention for children with impaired intellectual functioning.

A 1996 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that children exposed to elevated concentrations of PCBs in utero from mothers who had eaten contaminated fish had impaired intellectual function and memory and attention problems by age 11.

ELS in humans can lead to impaired cognitive functioning, exemplified in worse academic performance, impaired intellectual ability, language difficulties, and lower IQ (Cohen et al. 2008; De Bellis et al. 2009; van den Dries et al. 2010; Loman et al. 2009; Nelson et al. 2007).

In childhood and adolescence, IDD include goitre, retarded physical development, impaired mental development and impaired intellectual performance.

Mentors need to understand how stereotype threat can impair students' intellectual functioning (Aronson et al., 2013).

In infants and young children, even mild anaemia can impair intellectual development.

It is also recognised that arsenic can impair the intellectual function of children.

Intellectual Disability - Athletes with a significant impairment in intellectual functioning and associated limitations in adaptive behaviour.

Problems characteristically associated with this pathology include impaired cognitive and motor skills, with a reduction in general intellectual functioning, deficits in verbal learning, spatial memory, and reasoning [ 4].