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• n  a decrease in rate of change
• n  the extent to which something is delayed or held back
• n  any agent that retards or delays or hinders
• n  lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
• n  the act of slowing down or falling behind

• Then the man described in a 1987 police report as suffering from "mild mental retardation" walked toward the school yard.
• At least 15 individuals who had been branded zombies by terrified peasants turned out to be victims of epilepsy, mental retardation, insanity or alcoholism.
• A diagnosis of mental retardation doesn't always offer this advantage.

• deceleration
• slowing
• retardant
• retardent
• mental retardation
• backwardness
• slowness
• subnormality
• slowdown
• lag

• acceleration

News & Articles

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• Missing At-Risk Fresno Woman Found
  Jill Belk went missing on June 9th at about 11:00 a.m. at the Bonavente Laureen Home located at 6567 N Laureen Ave in Fresno, CA. Jill is a dependent adult with autism and severe mental retardation and can not speak.
  June 10, 2013 - KSEE 24 Fresno
• How Your Brain Circuits Become Miswired
  How do the faulty brain circuits involved in mental disorders such as autism or retardation develop? Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have helped light the way to an answer with the discovery of a mechanism that guides the wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain. The researchers discovered that faulty wiring occurs when RNA [...]
  June 9, 2013 - Psych Central
• Mothers fight for disability assistance
  ATLANTA - The fight for disabilities is in full effect. Mothers, whose children are now adults suffering from mental retardation, are speaking out for more resources and assistance from legislators...
  June 7, 2013 - Rome News-Tribune

Quotes

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• Joseph Lowery in Atlanta Progressive News
  Our national dilemma today is not technical retardation but moral deficiency. We have a moral deficiency in establishing priorities when putting our technological advances to work for the common good,Rev. Joseph Lowery, a Civil Rights...
• Robert F Kennedy Jr in Human Events (blog)
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the mercury in them has "poisoned an entire generation! It's causing IQ loss, mental retardation, speech delay, language delay, ADD, hyperactivity!"
• Ian Brady in Click Liverpool
  In the note Brady said: "Smoking has been banned here in the pretentious hope that it will make the public mistake this regressive cesspit of feral retardation as a hospital. It means I'm being habitually force-fed to enjoy the remaining luxury of...