A load of old bollocks they are redefining all the time
developmentally disabled is intended to imply and signify all those other
terms you have used. All of them innacurate misnomers
Larry
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> Interesting, in the UK, mental retardation was replaced with Mentally
> Handicapped in the 1960s. Now its people with learning difficulties...
> nothing to do with me.
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> Can someone from the US please explain developmentally disabled? Is
> Cerebral Palsy seen as this? If so, what on earth is that about? I never
> been impaired in my development as this implies normalized development
> when is clearly pathological.
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