The term "Mentally Retarched" has been replaced by which term?
Intellectual disability
The term "mentally retarded," once used in older clinical and educational literature, has been formally replaced by "intellectual disability" in modern diagnostic manuals such as the DSM-5 and by international bodies like the AAIDD.
This shift was made to remove the stigmatising connotations of the earlier term while retaining an accurate clinical description of significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour.
Mental weakness, intellectual backwardness, and intellectual abnormality are not the internationally recognised replacement terms used in current inclusive education and clinical practice.
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