Specific language impairment (SLI) is a persistent developmental disorder that affects language development and is not secondary to intellectual impairment, brain damage, sensorial or psychiatric problems (Stark and Tallal 1981).
And this intellectual wrong turn did huge damage to prospects for economic recovery.
But the economic harm pales in contrast to the intellectual and cultural damage caused by the bookstores' version of racial profiling.
Neural connections in babies' brains grow rapidly in the early years, and there's plenty of scientific evidence to show that children and animals deprived of stimulation early in life suffer lasting intellectual and emotional damage.
According to the World Health Organization, being exposed to high lead levels as a child can lead to nervous system damage, intellectual disabilities and behavioral problems.
In Anekantvada, there is no "battle of ideas", because this is considered to be a form of intellectual himsa or damage, leading quite logically to physical violence and war.
Children with intellectual disabilities, brain damage and consequent neuropsychiatric morbidities, and epilepsy which are more common in LAMIC like India are more likely to be represented in the community sample than the school based sample [ 88].
Iodine deficiency can damage intellectual capacity; anaemia is a factor in the pregnancy and childbirth complications that kill 585,000 women annually; folate deficiency in expectant mothers can cause birth defects in infants, such as spina bifida; and vitamin D deficiency can lead to poor bone formation, including rickets.
Anyone wanting to damage their intellectual credentials at a stroke need only do one simple thing: confess they read self-help books.
If this were ever to come to pass, it would immeasurably damage the intellectual and emotional environment of campus life, both in and beyond the classroom, as teachers who now feel like mentors and occasionally fond parents worry that any angry student who, for instance, complains about a grade could be carrying a gun.
