Sentence examples for intellectually handicapped from inspiring English sources
He is cynical, bitter, death-haunted and cruel; she is gentle, wary, intellectually handicapped.
This was at a time when the "intellectually handicapped", as people with Down's syndrome were then known, were regarded as non-persons to be consigned to institutions.
In recent years, many doctors have begun to use the so-called antipsychotic drugs, which were developed to treat schizophrenia, as all-purpose tranquilizers to settle threatening behavior — in children with attention-deficit problems, college students with depression, older people with Alzheimer's disease and intellectually handicapped people.
A leading British psychiatrist in 1874 wrote 'with one week of the month more or less sick and unfit for hard work she is intellectually handicapped'.
Accusations of fraud had led to the Nov.30 resignation of Fernando Martin Vicente, vice president of the committee and president of the Sports Federation for the Intellectually Handicapped.
As indicated in Table 1, some participants in the clinical groups had non-verbal IQ scores in the intellectually handicapped range (<70) when seen in the teenage/adult years.
Street-level, handicapped access.
So are handicapped children.
