How to Use intellectual disability in a Sentence

intellectual disability

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The 17-year-old has what his mom, Kathy Smith, describes as an intellectual disability.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• My original idea was to try to get employers to want to hire folks with intellectual disabilities.
  — Kathleen Toner, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• If left unchecked, phenylalanine can build up in the brain and cause intellectual disability, seizures, and behavioral symptoms.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
• Smith's intellectual disability has long been at the center of his lawyer's arguments, however, and court documents show that there is support for the claims.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
• State law does not have a way for people who were already convicted to reopen their cases and prove an intellectual disability.
  — Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021
• The sixth has an intellectual disability, per the report.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 8 June 2022
• Authorities are asking for the public’s help finding a 17-year-old boy with an intellectual disability who was last seen Friday night in Grand Prairie.
  — Dallas News, 18 June 2022
• An adult relative with an intellectual disability who lives in the home was found elsewhere unharmed.
  — Fox News, 29 Oct. 2021
• Payne, who has an intellectual disability, was later convicted of the murders in February 1988 and put on death row.
  — Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• Jacob mentors and works with students with intellectual disabilities and has made a huge impact with those students.
  — The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• This can lead to skeletal problems, deformities of the bones and joints, and intellectual disability.
  — Johanna Deeksha, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
• Her daughter has an intellectual disability and struggles with fine motor skills, requiring help to open packages and tie her shoes.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• Williams, whose intellectual disability is in the mild range, was also initially found unfit to stand trial.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
• He was born preterm at 34 weeks, developed a seizure disorder as a baby and now has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, severe intellectual disability and autism, Boyce said.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
• If that happened under the age of 18, that could be considered an intellectual disability.
  — Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
• One in 800 children are born with Down syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sanfilippo, who had an intellectual disability, had been in crippling pain in the four years after his first surgery, Contreras said.
  — Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• His lawyers and activists have said Nagaenthran’s IQ was found to be 69, a level recognized as an intellectual disability.
  — NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024