Autism affects 1 in 59 children, according to the National Autism Association, and more than half are classified as having an intellectual disability or a borderline intellectual disability.
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An IQ below 75 qualifies as an intellectual disability, the paper reports.
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Today, roughly 22014 million people are identified as having an intellectual disability. 183.
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Moore's appeal focused on how judges should weigh medical evidence of intellectual disability.
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Valdez, who has three other children, was diagnosed with low IQ and intellectual disability.
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In almost all cases, they suffer from intellectual disability, addiction, or severe economic disadvantage.
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Texas, an inmate contended his intellectual disability made him ineligible for the death penalty.
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Overall, of exonerees with reported mental illness or intellectual disability, 72 percent had confessed.
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Mr. Paredes, 27, is on the autism spectrum and has a mild intellectual disability.
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The lower court, it said, had mistakenly applied a newer definition of intellectual disability.
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Moshfegh repeatedly subjects the human body to extreme experiences: miscarried pregnancies, intellectual disability, eating disorders.
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Kienholz's parents, who both have an intellectual disability, gave him up for adoption at birth.
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In one episode in May 2016, staff members restrained a child with an intellectual disability.
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He has a mild intellectual disability, and says he struggles at completing tasks like job applications.
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But the ruling left it up to the states to decide how to determine intellectual disability.
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People with intellectual disability have an IQ below 70 and trouble with everyday tasks, they note.
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In a small South Korean town, a young man with an intellectual disability is accused of murder.
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In Thailand, some Buddhists view physical or intellectual disability as punishment manifested for wrongdoing in a past life.
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At the same time, the medical community continued to refine its understanding of — and language for — intellectual disability.
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Some two hours later, the court issued a revised order, limiting its review to the intellectual-disability issue.
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His appeal seeking to overturn his death sentence focuses on how judges should weigh medical evidence of intellectual disability.
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But a majority of the justices seem sceptical that Texas's standards for measuring intellectual disability jibe with their precedents.
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But a majority of the justices seem sceptical that Texas's rogue standards for measuring intellectual disability matched their precedents.
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Autism is a "social disability that develops so quickly it can become an intellectual disability", says Dr Stapel-Wax.
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Moore's lawyers had submitted various pieces of evidence they said proved his intellectual disability under current medical and clinical standards.
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And the judge's casual observations about Mr Moore bear little relationship to updated, unanimously agreed upon standards of intellectual disability.
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People with physical or intellectual disability as well as with mental disorder, account for about 8% of the Japanese population.
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The question now is whether "intellectual disability" will remain the preference, or, like its predecessors, devolve into a derogatory taunt.
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Later, as we learned more about Claire, autism, asthma, epilepsy, significant intellectual disability and others were added to the list.
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"Parents with intellectual disability can be just as good of parents as anyone else, but they need help," she said.
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A few years ago a member of the church congregation brought Beth, a friend with an intellectual disability, to church.
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"I buckled down and I surprised her when I got first place," says Crawford, who has a mild intellectual disability.
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The "cumulative effect of hundreds of seizures over time results in developmental stagnation and intellectual disability," according to Sullivan's testimony.
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To keep a child from being born with the chromosomal disorder Down syndrome, a common source of intellectual disability. 4.
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She says Callum, who was diagnosed with autism when he was 2, is mostly nonverbal and also has an intellectual disability.
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The definition of intellectual disability must be "informed by the medical community's diagnostic framework" and may not "disregard established medical practice".
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At the coffee shop in Dubuque, Bill Stumpf introduced his son with an intellectual disability, Kyle, who was celebrating a birthday.
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Nor is there any evidence that other mental disabilities—such as intellectual disability or traumatic brain injury—are associated with violence.
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During my service I worked at a nonprofit that served to instill life skills and independence in adults with intellectual disability.
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Kennedy and two other current justices were in the majority in the 2002 ruling precluding executing people with an intellectual disability.
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Because he was born with a severe intellectual disability, the law made it much harder for him to avoid unwanted care.
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The first is a chromosomal disorder that can result in intellectual disability, developmental delay, growth problems, heart defects and other abnormalities.
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The youngest kids were 30% more likely to have an intellectual disability than the oldest kids, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
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The small head of children with microcephaly causes underdeveloped brains, which leads to lifelong problems such as intellectual disability and recurrent seizures.
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Shriver's aunt, John F. Kennedy's older sister Rosemary Kennedy, had an intellectual disability, which Shriver cites as an inspiration for his work.
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What no jury or court ever heard is that Lee likely had an intellectual disability, fetal alcohol syndrome, and significant brain damage.
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But even though "intellectual disability" has been the preferred term for more than a decade, it gave my editors and me pause.
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Texas, No. 15-797, whether Texas may use an idiosyncratic standard in deciding who must be spared execution because of intellectual disability.
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The justices sent the case back down to the lower court with instructions to apply current medical community understandings of intellectual disability.
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The courts refused to allow Lee's team to conduct DNA testing and new evidence of his likely intellectual disability was never heard.
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The appeals court relied on a set of seven factors to help determine intellectual disability drawn from one of its earlier decisions.
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State lawmakers also guaranteed that anyone with an intellectual disability and a parent or guardian older than 75 is entitled to services.
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Harvard University's Fair Punishment Project found that many of the men, including Ward and McGehee, suffer from mental illness and intellectual disability.
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Among all children born during the study period, the 3,551 diagnosed with intellectual disability represent about 17 kids in every 1,153 live births.
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Compton testified that her evaluation of Moore -- including school, trial and prison records -- didn't show deficits sufficient for a diagnosis of intellectual disability.
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Of course, Amy's certainly been in bigger situations ... she is, after all, the first-ever collegiate golfer to compete with an intellectual disability.
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Moore's lawyers say that the appeals court used an "outdated" definition of intellectual disability that they say "sharply conflicts" with Supreme Court precedent.
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Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of JFK, addresses her father's controversial decision to have Rosemary, who had an undiagnosed intellectual disability, lobotomized.
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When phenylalanine levels are not adequately controlled through a restricted diet, complications including severe intellectual disability, seizures, behavioral problems and psychiatric symptoms occur.
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Lawyers for the state said in court filings that Mr. Tharpe's intellectual disability claim already had been reviewed and rejected by the courts.
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Children whose siblings have autism spectrum disorder are also at increased risk of conditions such as developmental delay, attention deficit and intellectual disability.
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Katie, for example, contracted herpes in her early 20s from having sex; she says none of her sexual partners have had an intellectual disability.
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The challenge to the Texas death sentence is an opportunity for the court to further define standards states may use in determining intellectual disability.
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The justices overturned a June 2018 ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which for a second time rejected Moore's intellectual disability claim.
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So despite his IQ scores hovering in the low 70s, Ms Johnson concluded, Mr Moore does not meet the Texas standard for intellectual disability.
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"Texas has adopted a unique approach to intellectual disability in capital cases in which it prohibits the use of current medical standards," he said.
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These were men with intellectual disability, which meant they had significant limitations in reasoning, learning and problem solving, as well as in adaptive behavior.
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There, dozens of other men with intellectual disability endured decades of mistreatment while living in a bunkhouse and working at a turkey-processing plant.
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The court will only consider whether Texas uses outdated standards in assessing whether a defendant's intellectual disability was severe enough to bar his execution.
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It is not yet known if Epidiolex can help with the walking problems and intellectual disability that can come with Dravet, Dr. Devinsky said.
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However, the Supreme Court's decision in Hall strongly suggests that the legal standard for intellectual disability" had become "more protective than the clinical standard.
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It wasn't until his 30s that this was diagnosed as Prader-Willi syndrome, an intellectual disability caused by a genetic error on chromosome 15.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women's use of antidepressants does not increase their babies' risk of intellectual disability, a new study suggests.
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Drake's career spanned several decades, but he was arguably best known for his role of Benny, a messenger with an intellectual disability, on L.A. Law.
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"For example, people who used to be only diagnosed with mental retardation or an intellectual disability are now also getting an autism diagnosis," he said.
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But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has twice ruled that Moore does not have an intellectual disability and is eligible for the death penalty.
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In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said adjudications of intellectual disability should be informed by the views of medical experts.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two appeals raising questions about the roles race and intellectual disability might play in capital prosecutions.
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"Today, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that all persons with intellectual disability are exempt from execution," Cliff Sloan, a lawyer for Moore, said in a statement.
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Ross Ryan, an Oregon man with an intellectual disability, stayed at a sheltered workshop for 22 years until a class action lawsuit shut it down.
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With cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and a seizure disorder, he cannot speak or move other than scooting across the floor on his knees and elbows.
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Moore v Texas revisits the question of intellectual disability to ask whether Texas used an outdated method of measuring a man's mental capacity before condemning him.
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The manager beat the cook, who has an intellectual disability, with his fists, pots and pans, and once burned him with hot metal tongs, prosecutors said.
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Texas, No. 15-6803, raises questions about whether Texas uses outdated standards in assessing whether a defendant's intellectual disability was severe enough to bar his execution.
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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.
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Two and a half hours later, the Court amended its original order and said it would only hear the first question in the case concerning intellectual disability.
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Addie, 4, is only the 21st person to be diagnosed with related intellectual disability syndrome, which prevents her body from making the protein needed for neurological development.
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We consequently agree with Moore and the prosecutor that, on the basis of the trial court record, Moore has shown he is a person with intellectual disability.
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While the justices differ about who should decide the standard for intellectual disability — either scientists or judges and juries — all eight agree that Texas' standard is unacceptable.
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They did find an increased risk of intellectual disability in offspring of fathers who initiated treatment after conception, but Sandin said this may be a chance finding.
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That translates into roughly 2,100 of the youngest students getting diagnosed with an intellectual disability each year, compared with about 1,700 of the oldest kids, Brown said.
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French was nonverbal and had an intellectual disability that would have prevented him from starting an argument, said his cousin, Rick Shureih, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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In 2014, she was the top-ranked woman in her division at the INAS (International Federation for Intellectual Disability Sport) World Tennis Championships in Mont-de-Marsan, France.
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Latif, who was competing in the men's long jump T20 (intellectual disability), broke the previous world record of 7.35 metres and set the new mark at 2000 metres.
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Even if the patient recovers, it can cause lasting neurological damage in up to 25 percent of cases; in children, it can cause seizures, deafness and intellectual disability.
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Scores really matter in these cases, because variation between tests can make the difference between whether or not someone with an intellectual disability receives government benefits or not.
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At one point during the argument, Kennedy said that the state appeals court precedent on which Texas relies was intended to "really limit" the definition of intellectual disability.
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The Supreme Court gives states a good amount of room to set their own intellectual-disability standards, but on Tuesday it found that Texas had crossed the line.
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An Australian study published in the journal Sexuality & Disability found that couples with intellectual disability were simply never left alone, and thus never allowed to engage in sexual behavior.
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Standards for intellectual disability should be fashioned from views of medical professionals, he implied, even if a rule that works for all 50 states is difficult to come by.
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A new partnership will help Olympians get to Austria next month for the 22017 Special Olympics World Winter Games, and it's empowering the intellectual disability community in the process.
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Prosecutors say Edwards admitted using violence, threats, isolation and intimidation to compel a man with an intellectual disability to work for more than 100 hours a week without pay.
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"The character of Lennie was never intended to be used to diagnose a medical condition like intellectual disability," Thomas Steinbeck, who died this month, said in a 2012 statement.
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In its Tuesday decision, the Supreme Court ruled the 2004 standard was invalid, returning Moore's case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for reconsideration of his intellectual disability.
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Between her shows, Madeline is usually curled up with her iPad, surfing the web or video-chatting for hours with her boyfriend Robbie, who also has an intellectual disability.
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Moore's lawyers argued that the lower court wrongly used an "outdated" 23-year-old definition used in Texas of intellectual disability when it determined that Moore was not intellectually disabled.
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And given all the risks, you'd think public schools — which are in charge of educating kids with intellectual disability — would be making sure this is part of every child's curriculum.
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"The court finds that Wilson has demonstrated significant deficits in adaptive functioning, and he therefore meets the legal standard for proving intellectual disability," Garaufis wrote in a 76-page decision.
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"The court finds that Wilson has demonstrated significant deficits in adaptive functioning, and he therefore meets the legal standard for proving intellectual disability," Garaufis wrote in a 76-page decision.
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Chief among these motifs are physical deformity, drugs (crack, meth, weed), would-be Hollywood actors and their agents, vague dissatisfaction, teachers and teaching, intellectual disability, sexual depravity, and poisonous berries.
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The average cost of taking care of an adult with an intellectual disability is about $88,000 a year, according to a 2014 study published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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But the case was revisited after the Supreme Court ruled in a 2014 case that courts must consider more than I.Q. when determining if a defendant has an intellectual disability.
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Mr. Hansell "expects to expand this unit to build a larger capacity to handle these cases and cases involving parents with (intellectual disability) issues," according a statement from the agency.
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It has been our privilege to watch Livingston, now 28, learn that appreciation for hard work and persevere despite being diagnosed with an intellectual disability known as Fragile X Syndrome.
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"Texas cannot satisfactorily explain why it applies current medical standards for diagnosing intellectual disability in other contexts, yet clings to superseded standards when an individual's life is at stake," she wrote.
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GAIL RIECKEN, a Democratic state representative in Indiana, is the grandmother of a five-year-old girl with Down's syndrome, a genetic disorder causing intellectual disability and delay in physical development.
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The state judge who heard this evidence, relying on current medical standards on intellectual disability, concluded that executing Mr. Moore would violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Lawyers for Moore had argued that the Texas court had ruled against their client by using outdated medical information and refusing to rely on more current clinical definitions of intellectual disability.
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At that time, Kennedy sided with the four liberals to reject Texas' outdated medical standards for determining a defendant's intellectual disability, over the dissenting views of Roberts and the other conservatives.
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Mental illness, intellectual disability, brain damage, childhood abuse or neglect, abysmal lawyers, minimal judicial review, a white victim — these factors are far more closely associated with who ends up getting executed.
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Mr. Dassey, 16 at the time, was a study in pathos: hapless, lost, scared, painfully awkward, trusting, susceptible to suggestion and close to if not over the borderline of intellectual disability.
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Overall, 0.9 percent of children exposed to the drugs were diagnosed with an intellectual disability over the next eight years, compared to 0.5 percent of children not exposed to the medications.
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While Moore's case did not target the large constitutional question, Breyer expressed concern that the court might not be able to find a standard that would settle borderline intellectual disability cases nationwide.
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Clifford Sloan, Mr Moore's lawyer, argued that Texas's "unique approach" to measuring intellectual disability relies on "harmful and inappropriate lay stereotypes" which are "anti-clinical" and contradict the "core holding" in Atkins.
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In consulting the "definition of intellectual disability presently used by the AAIDD [American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities]", Judge Cheryl Johnson wrote, the trial court had mistakenly used a newfangled standard.
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In Hall v Florida, a 2014 case, the Supreme Court clarified that standards for intellectual disability must be "informed by the medical community's diagnostic framework" and may not "disregard established medical practice".
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Brianna Gussert was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, which causes delayed growth and development, intellectual disability and seizures, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Giving a Name, and Dignity, to a Disability" (news analysis, Sunday Review, May 8): Thank you for Dan Barry's important and eye-opening article about intellectual disability.
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"Texas cannot satisfactorily explain why it applies current medical standards for diagnosing intellectual disability in other contexts, yet clings to superseded standards when an individual's life is at stake," Justice Ginsburg wrote.
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At that time, Justice Kennedy had joined the four liberals to reject Texas' outdated medical standards for determining a defendant's intellectual disability, over the dissenting views of Roberts and the other conservatives.
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Damage to the SETD1A gene was found in 10 of the schizophrenia patients, and surprisingly also in six other people with other developmental and neuropsychiatric disorders such as intellectual disability, the scientists said.
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The divided court ruled that a Texas appeals court misapplied the law by again rejecting an appeal brought by inmate Bobby Moore, 59, seeking to avoid execution on the basis of intellectual disability.
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" The Supreme Court concluded that there was little point in sending the case back to the Texas court for further review, saying that "Moore has shown he is a person with intellectual disability.
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In Hall v Florida, a case from 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that standards for intellectual disability must be "informed by the medical community's diagnostic framework", and may not disregard established medical practice.
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Clifford Sloan, Mr Moore's lawyer, argued that Texas has a "unique approach" to measuring intellectual disability that relies on "harmful lay stereotypes" that are "anti-clinical" and contradict the "core holding" in Atkins.
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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) recognizes ten categories of impairments: Intellectual disability; visual impairment; hypertaxia; atonia; short stature; limb loss; athetosis; impaired passive range of movement; impaired muscle power; and limb length difference.
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Solis was wanted on a warrant for violating parole, and authorities said Saturday that they had received "credible information" that he might have a mental illness or intellectual disability and ordered an evaluation.
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But children of women infected in pregnancy may be born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, which can be linked to seizures, intellectual disability, hearing loss or vision problems, and has no cure.
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But Mr. Hochbaum, his lawyer, said that T.J. would be the only student in his class with an intellectual disability and that the school's curriculum was not a good match for his needs.
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When Katie, 20153, was identified as having an intellectual disability as a young child, her parents were told that she would never learn to read and would spend her days in a sheltered workshop.
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But while folks with ID do face challenges, with the right support and resources, "every person with an intellectual disability can lead a satisfying, meaningful life in the community," as The Arc's site notes.
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While Chani has a "beau" at work, another young man who also has an intellectual disability, "They're never, ever left alone, so they never have an opportunity to follow through on anything," says Shevin.
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"It remains true under our newly adopted framework that a vast array of evidence in this record is inconsistent with a finding of intellectual disability," the Texas court said in a 5-3 decision.
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"I tried to ask myself if the court could say, use the Briseno factors first, and after that, if you find no intellectual disability, then turn to the clinical standards," Justice Anthony Kennedy said.
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To see if there might be an increased risk of intellectual disability after exposure to antidepressant medications in the womb, the researchers analyzed data on all children born in Sweden in 2006 and 2007.
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Even people without a background in the autism world will be fascinated to learn about Bill Sackter, a man with an intellectual disability whose friendship with filmmaker Barry Morrow led to the movie Rain Man.
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Based on the lower scores for preemies in the study, researchers estimated that about 16 percent of the earliest arrivals would have a serious intellectual disability, compared with about 2.5 percent in the total population.
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This linguistic preference is part of society's long struggle to find the proper terminology for people with intellectual disability, and reflects the discomfort the subject creates among many in the so-called non-disabled world.
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Two years ago, several older men with intellectual disability were found living in virtual segregation in a seedy bunkhouse in South Carolina, across the street from the massive meat-processing plant where they once worked.
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The small head of children with microcephaly causes underdeveloped brains, which leads to lifelong problems such as intellectual disability and recurrent seizures Unfortunately the more we learn about the virus, the grimmer the outlook becomes.
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The Supreme Court's opinion sends a strong signal that Texas -- a state that leads the country in executions -- needs to broaden its interpretation of who is ineligible for the death penalty based on intellectual disability.
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An example given in the report is the case of Razia, a 13-year-old girl from Uttarakhand with an intellectual disability, who found it hard to talk about her rape by her brother's tutor.
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One in 10,000 people has Williams syndrome, which commonly includes other characteristics too: moderate intellectual disability, cardiac and GI problems, poor muscle coordination, A.D.H.D., visual-spatial deficits, and a gift for music, language and storytelling.
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Intellectual disability was diagnosed in 3.1% of children with mothers who had anemia early in pregnancy versus 1.1% of those whose moms developed anemia later on and 1.3% of kids born to moms without anemia.
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When Tanya Brice's mother moved into her apartment in Owings Mills, Md., five years ago, she was already caring for twin toddlers, one of whom has autism and an intellectual disability, and a teenage son.
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Also Thursday, Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Project asked to file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Williams' request, arguing that his claims of intellectual disability have not been fully explored.
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The Texas court acknowledged that the position of the medical community on the diagnosis of intellectual disability has shifted in recent years, but said that "until the legislature acts" it is bound by its own precedent.
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Over 83,000 people are chronically homeless, meaning they have a physical or intellectual disability and have been homeless for a year, or they have experienced shorter periods of homelessness more than four times in their life.
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"Today, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that all persons with intellectual disability are exempt from execution, and that current medical standards must be used to determine whether a person is intellectually disabled," said Cliff Sloan, Moore's lawyer.
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Some cases that used to be diagnosed as an "intellectual disability" or (in the bad old days) as "mental retardation" are now being recognised as autism, says Jennifer Stapel-Wax of Emory University's Marcus Autism Centre.
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It said a finding of intellectual disability required proof of three things: "subaverage intellectual functioning," meaning low I.Q. scores; a lack of fundamental social and practical skills; and the presence of both conditions before age 18.
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In a 5-3 decision Tuesday, the High Court found deep flaws in Texas' standard for determining intellectual disability in death penalty cases, sending Moore's case back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for reassessment.
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In a 28-234 decision Tuesday, the High Court found deep flaws in Texas' standard for determining intellectual disability in death penalty cases, sending Moore's case back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for reassessment.
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She pointed to Bruce Webster, sentenced to death in 1996, who has also made claims of intellectual disability, and Daniel Lee, who like Ortiz, received the death penalty while a more culpable co-defendant did not.
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Dr. Levy said, "we're now more tuned in to the fact that children with autism have many co-occurring conditions," such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disability, sleep problems, seizures, anxiety and severe food selectivity.
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The majority said the Texas Court of Criminal appeals had misapplied Supreme Court standards set down in an earlier dispute over Bobby James Moore, who contends his intellectual disability makes him ineligible for the death penalty.
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They ruled that, because Moore figured out how to calculate buying goods at the prison commissary and learned how to read at a seventh-grade level while in prison, he passed its new intellectual disability test.
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The Supreme Court originally said that it would grant two questions in Moore's case concerning his claim of intellectual disability and the fact that he had been subject to prolonged confinement including time spent in solitary confinement.
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For instance, mutations in a gene called BRAF can result in a developmental disorder called Costello syndrome, which is characterized by intellectual disability and delayed development, loose folds of skin, unusually flexible joints and a large mouth.
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Living there, in a bunkhouse created out of an interconnecting complex of shabby mobile homes, were several men with intellectual disability, including Leon Jones, who worked picking up dead poultry at the Kraft meatpacking plant across the street.
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That echoed a 2014 dissent from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who said it was a bad idea to rely on the shifting views of medical experts to decide who must be spared execution based on intellectual disability.
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"The vast majority of children conceived using ART are born healthy and will not be diagnosed with an intellectual disability," said lead study author Michele Hansen of the Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Western Australia in Perth.
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His lawyer, Clifford M. Sloan, argued that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was mistaken when it ruled that Moore was eligible for the death penalty because it based its decision on an outdated medical definition of intellectual disability.
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In a shifting political climate where respect for scientific consensus is no longer a sure bet, Texas maintains that it can choose from a range of standards for intellectual disability, including one drawn from the pages of a novel.
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He's one of roughly 228 million people in the United States with an intellectual disability (ID)—a spectrum term that encompasses a range of conditions, including severe autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, and Down syndrome, in addition to mental retardation.
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The 60-year-old who sued had developed mental problems following surgery for a cleft palate as an infant and was diagnosed with an intellectual disability at 15, after which she was forcibly sterilized, media said, quoting court documents.
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Researchers analyzed data from a large sample of children and found those whose mothers took antidepressant medications while pregnant were no more likely to be diagnosed with intellectual disability than those who weren't exposed to antidepressants in the womb.
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Bobby Paul Edwards A white man who forced a black man with an intellectual disability to work at a restaurant more than 100 hours a week without pay while enduring violence and threats will serve 10 years in prison.
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Billard presented Rhodes's history of abuse and neglect and pointed out that while in jail for Farah's murder, Rhodes received a 67 on an I.Q. test, a score that makes him potentially ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability.
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" The bill would also ban punishing certain people with solitary confinement, like minors, those with serious mental illness, those with a physical or intellectual disability, those pregnant or who have recently given birth or those "significantly adversely affected by solitary.
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A 47-year-old black man with an intellectual disability, Fults pleaded guilty to shooting the woman five times in the head, and was sentenced to death by a jury roughly racially representative of the county where the crime took place.
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The Zhang team found hints of slightly higher rates of intellectual disability, obsessive-compulsive disorder, tic disorders and eating disorders among children born through C-section, but those associations were not statistically significant, meaning they could be due to chance.
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A 2014 study found that it costs $2.4 million to support a person with autism and an intellectual disability (which appears to affect 40 percent to 60 percent of those with autism) throughout the course of his or her life.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the way Texas decides who must be spared the death penalty on account of intellectual disability, with several justices indicating that the state's standards were either too strict or too arbitrary.
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Court filings Thursday afternoon followed two threads: that Arkansas executions this week were so flawed that there is little doubt Williams will suffer as he dies, and that he has an intellectual disability that would make him ineligible for execution.
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We work very closely with parent and provider groups that share our values, including the largest and most mainstream entities in the intellectual disability and Down syndrome advocacy movements, which have moved away from the fear and pity tactics that distorted autism advocacy.
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" A statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office alleges that between September 2009 and October 2014, Edwards used various methods "to compel the victim, who has an intellectual disability, to work as the buffet cook of J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina.
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Joined by Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Anthony Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor, Ms Ginsburg wondered why Texas was willing to apply "current medical standards for diagnosing intellectual disability in other contexts, yet clings to superseded standards when an individual's life is at stake".
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On Tuesday, Chicago police arrested three 18-year-olds and a 24-year-old, including the woman who allegedly filmed and posted a 30-minute video on her Facebook account showing the kidnapping and torturing of a white man with an intellectual disability.
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Bill Clinton became the first Democrat to win the White House in 12 years after attacking a black rapper for making anti-white comments and very pointedly executing a black man with an intellectual disability to prove his anti-crime bona fides.
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For example, in 2012, the Education Department found that American Indian and Alaska Native students were 60 percent more likely to be labeled with an intellectual disability, while black children were more than twice as likely as other groups to be so identified.
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But he had held down jobs — at a pizza shop, banquet setup in hotels — and after an intellectual disability was diagnosed, he and his mother say, he ran track and field in the Special Olympics, competing in Minnesota, Colorado, Germany and London.
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In an analysis of data on more than half a million babies born in Sweden, researchers found that anemia in the mother before the 218th week of pregnancy was linked with a heightened risk of disorders including autism, ADHD and intellectual disability.
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Compared to kids who were the oldest in their grades, the youngest students - with birthdays within the final 21 months before the enrollment cutoff for their grade - were more than 23% more likely to be diagnosed with an intellectual disability, depression, or ADHD.
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And for one family in Ireland, the occasion is a chance to look back on the sweet young woman who had an intellectual disability and underwent a lobotomy in 1941, at her father's insistence, which left her with the mental capacities of a small child.
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A white man from South Carolina was sentenced to 10 years in prison after federal prosecutors said he forced an African American man with an intellectual disability to work "for more than 100 hours a week for no pay" at a restaurant he managed.
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The baby in New York is one of a growing number of children born in the United States with microcephaly, a condition that requires intensive care and can lead to a variety of other problems, including seizures, vision and hearing loss and intellectual disability.
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Giving Special Section WASHINGTON — Like every mother who has a sick child, Katie Clapp remembers with painful clarity the moment 24 years ago when her doctor called to say that her young son, Andy, had Fragile X, an inherited disease that causes intellectual disability.
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In addition to an excessive appetite, its range of symptoms includes short stature, sleep apnea, extreme daytime sleepiness, visual defects, underdeveloped genital organs, poor coordination, mild to moderate intellectual disability, speech problems, a high tolerance for pain, temper tantrums, obsessive behaviors and blood sugar irregularities.
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In New York, third-degree rape applies to anyone who either can't (through intoxication, or physical or intellectual disability) or didn't give consent; it's a distinctly different charge from first-degree rape, which involves very young minors and/or "forcible compulsion," usually involving a weapon.
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And even though he has been receiving special education services off and on since he was 2, it wasn't until he was 12 that his family secured an accurate diagnosis of his problem: mild intellectual disability, a classification that used to be called mental retardation.
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By noon, the court's public-information office released a revised order clarifying that the justices would tackle only the decidedly less consequential question of whether Texas was wrong to use old medical standards of intellectual disability in assessing whether Mr Moore was competent to be executed.
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"Texas cannot satisfactorily explain why it applies current medical standards for diagnosing intellectual disability in other contexts, yet clings to superseded standards when an individual's life is at stake," she wrote in the majority opinion, which Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined.
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The federal government also threatened to sue the Massachusetts child welfare agency if it did not return a child to a mother described as having mild intellectual disability; child welfare workers had removed her 2-day-old baby from her care instead of providing services to her.
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It seemed like a nightmare at the time: In late October, a New York advocacy group for people with special needs issued a blistering report that a treatment center in Pennsylvania was breaking the law by restraining its residents, among them, a child with an intellectual disability.
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Ivey still has an opportunity to grant an appeal for clemency to Rocky Myers, a 53-year old man with a severe intellectual disability who was, according the American Civil Liberties Union, served by an incompetent lawyer and convicted on the evidence of one eyewitness who has since recanted.
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Through continued research by many laboratories across the world and the sequencing of the genomes of children with developmental disorders, it was later determined that the gene we identified is critical for the development of cognition and that its mutations are associated with intellectual disability, autistic features, and epilepsy.
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A white former restaurant manager in South Carolina was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $273,000 to a black cook with an intellectual disability after pleading guilty to abusing him and forcing him to work without pay, according to the Justice Department.
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The Zika virus has been linked to a massive spike in cases of microcephaly, a condition in which a baby is born with an abnormally small head and subsequently faces a life of seizures, development delay, and intellectual disability, as well as hearing, vision, and balance problems and more.
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Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor for "coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay," the Department of Justice said in a release.
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Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor for "coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay," according to a press release from the Justice Department.
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Looked at another way, children born to women who had anemia early in pregnancy were 1.44 times more likely to develop autism, 1.37 more likely to develop ADHD and 2.2 times more likely to have intellectual disability compared to children with moms who developed anemia later in pregnancy.
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In deeming Mr Moore fit to be executed, the majority opinion noted, the CCA had relied upon a 1992 diagnostic manual rather than updated sources and had used a dreamed-up list of seven factors (including the ability to "lie effectively" and "formulate plans") purportedly belying his claim to intellectual disability.
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When it comes to their sex lives, research shows many women with intellectual disability don't associate sex with pleasure, and tend to play a passive role, more directed to "pleasuring the penis of their sex partner" than their own enjoyment, according to a 2015 study published in the Journal of Sex Research.
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But even at the second trial, Mr. Hatchett's lawyer failed to present evidence of his intellectual disability or of the fact that his injuries would almost certainly have prevented him from striking Ms. Carter with the force Mr. Williams had described or lugging her body across the park while leaning on crutches.
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Less than two weeks later, however, Roberts joined the more liberal justices — again over the objection of Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch — in sending a Texas death-penalty case back to the Texas courts because "it is easy to see," Roberts wrote, that the state court there had "misapplied" the standards for assessing intellectual disability in death-penalty cases.
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Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor zeroed in on the CCA's principle that intellectual disability standards are "exceedingly subjective" and should be geared to not clinical standards but to the "level and degree of mental retardation at which a consensus of Texas citizens would agree that a person should be exempted from the death penalty".
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Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is "associated with a range of complications and poor reproductive outcomes and can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), which are characterized by lifelong physical, behavioral, and intellectual disabilities," the CDC report said, adding that exposure to alcohol in the womb is one of the leading preventable causes of intellectual disability in children.
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In recent years, documentary films and series like 'Monica and David' and A&E's 'Born This Way' have shed light on some of the unique joys and challenges of romantic relationships between people with Down Syndrome, and particularly, the struggle to maintain a happy, healthy, and independent sex life—an issue not often discussed and loaded with misconceptions about sex and intellectual disability.
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The film, scored by Daniel Lopatin, shows Connie's behavior to be destructive to anyone who comes into his orbit, including his girlfriend, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh; Crystal, a teenage girl and complicated love interest played by Talia Webster; and, clearly, his brother (Benny Safdie), who has an intellectual disability and whom Connie enlists for his not-quite-"Ocean's Eleven"-type outings.
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Edwards, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor, admitting he used violence, threats, isolation and intimidation against a black man with an intellectual disability and forced him to work more than 100 hours per week without payment, acting assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Sherri A. Lydon of the South Carolina district said.
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