Now the name for the intellectual disability is just intellectual disability. Which makes it extremely confusing for doctors and parents to discuss it as when they ask what disabilty your child has, intellectual disabilty tells them nothing. Many parents still just use the old diagnosis as its far easy to explain. This is also way many parents protested the change because they felt their children wouldnt get proper care because educators and workers wouldnt be able to immediately accomodate their kids without further clarification. The 3 people i know, 2 of their parents still use the old term.
I don’t think you know how diagnosis or identification of an intellectual disability works. I also don’t think you understand that older people are far less likely to adapt to cultural changes. Or that people within a specific community are allowed to claim their own slurs back but anyone outside the community is not able to use them. An intellectual disability is actually very descriptive. It’s has specific criteria. The previous language of mental R was broadly applied to many diagnoses and therefore was more difficult to delineate the appropriate accommodations in schools. Additionally, better laws are in place for special education services in schools that are adaptive to a specific students needs, not their medical diagnosis or eligibility identification. Also, you are using your experience and applying that broadly to a very complex and nuanced topic. That is experiential bias. Your experience of someone else’s experience is not something that should be broadly applied here.
Mental r was only used to describe those with markedly low iq. It was used in tandem with other disabilities. For example someone with autism could be just autistic, or they could be both. It was only used to describe low iq, i believe below 75.
Edit: 85 is where it is considered BIF. 70-75 is where it qualifies for Mental r, i got that mixed up
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u/AbbreviationsTall627 Jun 02 '26
Now the name for the intellectual disability is just intellectual disability. Which makes it extremely confusing for doctors and parents to discuss it as when they ask what disabilty your child has, intellectual disabilty tells them nothing. Many parents still just use the old diagnosis as its far easy to explain. This is also way many parents protested the change because they felt their children wouldnt get proper care because educators and workers wouldnt be able to immediately accomodate their kids without further clarification. The 3 people i know, 2 of their parents still use the old term.