unspecified mental retardation

the diagnosis made when an individual is presumed to have mental retardation but is too severely impaired or uncooperative to be evaluated through the use of standard intelligence tests and adaptive behavior measures. The DSM–IV–TR designation is mental retardation, severity unspecified. In DSM–5, the term is unspecified intellectual disability.

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November 25th 2024

gender constancy

a child’s emerging sense of the permanence of being a boy or a girl, an understanding that occurs in a series of stages: gender identity, gender stability, and gender consistency.