Mental Retardation: Meaning, Causes, Prevention And Treatment

The American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD), in its Journal of Mental Deficiency (1973, p.11) defined Mental Retardation (retardness) as “significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behaviour, and manifested during the developmental period”. The American psychiatric Association Journal (1986) defined it as a “subgeneral intellectual functioning, which originates during the … Read more