intellectually disabled

adjective

: affected by intellectual disability

intellectually disabled children/adults

The academy students, ages 18 to 21, are intellectually disabled students who are at what's called a transition age and are preparing to be self-sustaining adults with the experience to land and hold down various kinds of jobs.

—Juan Siliezar

… lawmakers are poised to pass legislation that will put Florida on the cutting edge in education, savings and employment opportunities for the intellectually disabled.

—William March

Examples of intellectually disabled in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As a general rule, someone must have an IQ of 70 or below to be considered intellectually disabled. —Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

Smith says he is intellectually disabled; the state of Alabama wants to execute him anyway. —Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

The book opens with the 1982 murder of a well-off elderly white woman, Dorothy Edwards, in Greenwood, South Carolina—a murder for which Elmore, an intellectually disabled Black handyman, is swiftly convicted and sentenced to death. —Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024

The question of whether Atkins survives or falls will turn on whether there are five justices who want intellectually disabled people to be executed, and nothing else. —Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

intellectually disabled

adjective

: affected by intellectual disability

Medical Definition

intellectually disabled

adjective

: affected by intellectual disability

intellectually disabled children/adults

State officials and special education advocates are pushing legislation aimed at breaking down barriers they say are keeping thousands of intellectually disabled Bay State students from enrolling in college classes.

—Kathleen McKiernan, The Boston Herald