Blood lead concentrations as low as 10 μg/dL are known to impair neurologic development, resulting in permanent intellectual impairment.
Multi-infarct dementia results from numerous small strokes which impair brain function so that the individual has global intellectual impairment.
Intellectual impairment in HIV infection may cause unemployment, susceptibility for systemic disease, and impaired quality of life [ 5, 6].
T/F 20: Intellectual impairment.
14: Swimmers with intellectual impairment who also meet the sport-specific criteria compete in this class.
Mr KC, 24, has an intellectual impairment and possibly also autism spectrum disorder.
Experts in intellectual impairment say that is virtually impossible to do.
Athletes in this class are diagnosed with intellectual impairment and meet sport-specific minimum disability criteria in 1,500m, long jump or shot put respectively.
Players with physical impairments compete in sport classes 1-10, athletesetes with an intellectual impairment compete in sport class 11.
Athletes with an intellectual impairment are limited in regards to intellectual functions and their adaptive behaviour, which is diagnosed before the age of 18 years.
Amnesia (a gross loss of recent memory and of time sense without other intellectual impairment) is another specific psychological impairment associated with organic brain disease.
