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Changing Terms: Senate votes to drop “mental retardation”

Posted on May 25, 2010 by naricspotlight

Rosa’s Law, introduced to the Senate in November 2007, would change the language used in Federal documents from mental retardation (MR) to intellectual disabilities (ID).  The REHABDATA Thesaurus currently uses the terms mental retardation and developmental disabilities (DD) to index … Continue reading →

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