How to Use intellectual disability in a Sentence

intellectual disability

noun
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  • The state plans make clear that the fate of those with intellectual disabilities is part of the wrenching debate.
    — Amy Silverman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The type of alert is issued by the state for people of any age who have an intellectual disability.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • My wife had a parish where one/third of her parish were adults with intellectual disabilities.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The bill also adds intellectual disability of a youth as a factor for the judge to consider.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2021
  • At the time of his death, Tirado’s 17-year-old son Matthew, who according to the Courant had severe intellectual disabilities, weighed just 84 lbs.
    — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2018
  • Eight of the people were patients at Jacquelyn House, a group home for adults with intellectual disabilities, and the other two were staff members.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • People from ages 8 through 17 with an intellectual disability will be paired with two youth mentors and either a pig or a goat to show the show animals.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2019
  • The 17-year-old has what his mom, Kathy Smith, describes as an intellectual disability.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Police said the 38-year-old client has severe intellectual disabilities and is never supposed to be left alone, even in the bathroom.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Edwards stopped paying the young man, who has an intellectual disability; forced him to work seven days a week, racking up over 100 hours; and spewed racial slurs and other threats at him.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 6 June 2018
  • Lawyers for the state said in court filings that Tharpe's intellectual disability claim already has been reviewed and rejected by the courts.
    — Keith Leroy Tharpe, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The house had a living space in the basement intended for Fawcett’s daughter, Abby, who has an intellectual disability, to live in as an adult.
    — oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022
  • This can lead to convulsions and leave a child deaf or with an intellectual disability.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
  • One of his attorneys said Bourgeois has an intellectual disability and should be able to prove that.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • People with Down syndrome, a type of intellectual disability, did make the list.
    — Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Parents have a child with an intellectual disability, check out the programs available, then get involved or start their own.
    — Gregg Doyel indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Ricky has a mild intellectual disability, works in Denver & has not returned home from work.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Police are asking for the public's help to find a 41-year-old man with an intellectual disability who was last seen Saturday in Denton.
    — Dallas News, 30 June 2019
  • My original idea was to try to get employers to want to hire folks with intellectual disabilities.
    — Kathleen Toner, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Set in a care home for kids and youth with intellectual disabilities, the hybrid pic follows a team of social workers in their daily routines and interactions with the youths.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 19 Aug. 2024
  • In the horror thriller Mother, a small village treats a boy with intellectual disabilities poorly to their detriment.
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2019
  • His younger sister, Rosemary Kennedy, had been born with intellectual disabilities — and her treatment is illustrative of some of the horrors of the asylum era.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Cian, who has autism and intellectual disabilities, could no longer make out the numbers on the elevator buttons, his parents said.
    — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 26 July 2024
  • The youngest kids were 30% more likely to have an intellectual disability and 31% more likely to have depression than their older classmates.
    — Serena Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • But until the new state law was passed, Tennessee had no mechanism for an inmate to reopen his case in order to press a claim of intellectual disability.
    — Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • Even by age 8, more than half of Black children diagnosed with autism also had an intellectual disability, compared to 35% of 8-year-olds with autism overall.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
  • About one child in every 1,000 who contract measles can end up with brain swelling, or encephalitis, which can cause convulsions and leave children deaf or with intellectual disabilities, the CDC says.
    — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The New Bedford man has been charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person with an intellectual disability, rape, assault to rape, and open and gross lewdness, police said.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Complications from the disease can cause lifelong harm, including hearing loss, deafness and intellectual disabilities, according to the CDC.
    — Isabel Funk, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
  • And these imbalances preceded diagnosis of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability by 13 to 14 years on average, refuting the assumption that gut microbe imbalances arise from diet.
    — Angelica P. Ahrens, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024

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