How to Use intellectual disability in a Sentence

intellectual disability

noun
  • My wife had a parish where one/third of her parish were adults with intellectual disabilities.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The type of alert is issued by the state for people of any age who have an intellectual disability.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The state plans make clear that the fate of those with intellectual disabilities is part of the wrenching debate.
    — Amy Silverman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2020
  • This can lead to convulsions and leave a child deaf or with an intellectual disability.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This can lead to convulsions and leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability.
    — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Lucy, the daughter of a man with intellectual disabilities, was an originary role in more ways than one.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Levi has an intellectual disability and, now 3, is tube fed.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The bill also adds intellectual disability of a youth as a factor for the judge to consider.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The officer then used a slur for those with an intellectual disability.
    — Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025
  • My original idea was to try to get employers to want to hire folks with intellectual disabilities.
    — Kathleen Toner, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Parents have a child with an intellectual disability, check out the programs available, then get involved or start their own.
    — Gregg Doyel indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Ricky has a mild intellectual disability, works in Denver & has not returned home from work.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • One of his attorneys said Bourgeois has an intellectual disability and should be able to prove that.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Black’s case could possibly see more delays as his lawyers have long argued that his severe intellectual disabilities should keep him off death row.
    — Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The law does not state how police should determine whether a child has an intellectual disability before charging them.
    — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
  • People with Down syndrome, a type of intellectual disability, did make the list.
    — Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • State law does not have a way for people who were already convicted to reopen their cases and prove an intellectual disability.
    — Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Saldaño was convicted of murder in a robbery gone wrong, but his first lawyers did not raise the claim of intellectual disability at trial.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 22 June 2026
  • Brady and Lilly, who has an intellectual disability, lost their mother to cancer a few years before.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • An Olathe man with intellectual disabilities has been missing for about 24 hours.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 31 May 2018
  • About 1% of all children with intellectual disabilities have a mutation of the gene.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The boy has an intellectual disability and Coble worked in his class, according to the sheriff’s office.
    — Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Cian, who has autism and intellectual disabilities, could no longer make out the numbers on the elevator buttons, his parents said.
    — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 26 July 2024
  • The film follows a couple facing old age and the risk of losing their land while caring for their adult son Naraan, who has intellectual disabilities.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • If left unchecked, phenylalanine can build up in the brain and cause intellectual disability, seizures, and behavioral symptoms.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Lawyers for the state said in court filings that Tharpe's intellectual disability claim already has been reviewed and rejected by the courts.
    — Keith Leroy Tharpe, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Police said the 38-year-old client has severe intellectual disabilities and is never supposed to be left alone, even in the bathroom.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The 17-year-old has what his mom, Kathy Smith, describes as an intellectual disability.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In the horror thriller Mother, a small village treats a boy with intellectual disabilities poorly to their detriment.
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2019
  • People from ages 8 through 17 with an intellectual disability will be paired with two youth mentors and either a pig or a goat to show the show animals.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2019

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