Meaning of retardism | Babel Free

Definitions

Mental retardation

dated, uncountable

Examples

“Epileptic seizures are rather common among the mentally retarded, but are considered to be concomitant with the retardism rather than a cause of it.”

“Chapter titles reveal attention to specific areas of emotional disability, including behavior disorders; symptomatic autism in adolescence; pseudo-retardism; school refusal; anorexia nervosa; and passive, aggressive, selective mutes.”

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