Sentence examples for intellectually disability from inspiring English sources

Class 20 covers athletes with an intellectually disability.

It was only in 2009 that a rigorous new system for verifying intellectually disability was approved, allowing this category of Paralympians to be reinstated in time for 2012.

Florida's rule misconstrues the Court's in Atkins that intellectually disability is characterized by an IQ of 'approximately 70.' Florida's rule is in direct opposition to the views of those who design, administer, and interpret the IQ test.

Bullimbal is a government school located in Tamworth, a large regional town in New South Wales with a population of 55,000 for children with a moderate to severe intellectually disability.

However, following a scandal in 2000 where members of the Spanish basketball squad pretended to have intellectual disabilities, the IPC banned intellectually disabled athletes.

Those who have scores in the upper range of intellectual disability, roughly 53 to 70, comprise the majority of intellectually disabled persons; they are able to learn academic and prevocational skills with some special training.

The intellectual disability classification for swimming (S14) is not presently recognized by the IPC; nor is an intellectually disabled swimmer eligible to compete under the IPC Swimming Functional Classification System".

"Freddie Lee Hall may or may not be intellectually disabled, but the law requires that he have the opportunity to present evidence of his intellectual disability, including deficits in adaptive functioning over his lifetime," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority in the case, Hall v. Florida.

The case centred on Timothy W., who was a multiply handicapped and profoundly intellectually disabled child with complex developmental disabilities, spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and cortical blindness.

The Spanish men's intellectual disability basketball team was stripped of its gold medal after it emerged that many of its members were not intellectually disabled at all.

Intellectual disability is entwined with false confessions; one-third of those exonerated by DNA testing who had falsely confessed were mentally ill or intellectually disabled.