mental disability
Intellectual functioning deficit
Mental disability refers to conditions that significantly limit cognitive functioning, learning, reasoning, or adaptive behavior.
The term covers a broad range: intellectual disabilities present from birth or early childhood, as well as cognitive impairments acquired later through injury, illness, or aging.
The school provides accommodations for students with mental disabilities.
In legal and policy contexts, mental disability often appears alongside physical disability in anti-discrimination language.
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- Down syndromeThird chromosome 21 present
- fragile X syndromeGenetic cause of cognitive impairment
- autism spectrum disorderNeurodevelopmental condition affecting interaction
- special needsAtypical developmental or learning conditions
inclusive education · group home · supported living · fetal alcohol syndrome · bipolar disorder · dyspraxia · advocacy groups · major depressive disorder · sensory processing · workplace accommodations · brain injury · cognitive impairment · hydrocephalus · anxiety disorders · developmental delay · cerebral palsy · epilepsy · IQ testing
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, hearing impairment, amputees
- Sentencing Factorsmitigating factors, aggravating factors, extenuating circumstances, criminal history, prior record
- guardianship lawlegal guardian, legal guardianship, conservatorship, ward of court, legal capacity
- legal capacitylegal capacity, capacity, incapacity, competence, competency
mental disabilitymental ability
Cognitive functioning capacity
cognitive ability · neurotypicality · intellectual capacity · mental health · mental acuity
mental disabilityphysical disability
Impairment of bodily function
physical impairment · sensory disability · blindness · deafness
mental, mentally, mentality, mentalities, disable, disabled, disabling, disables, disability