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Intellectual Disabilities


Intellectual disabilities - stable impairments of mental functions with a reduction primarily in cognitive abilities, as well as consciousness, orientation, volitional and motivational functions, attention, memory, psychomotor functions, emotions, perception, thinking, high-level cognitive functions, intellectual functions, speech, sequential complex movements, which are manifested through personality in the form of social maladaptation of the disabled person in various forms and degrees of severity1.

  1. Federal Law No. 181-FZ dated November 24, 1995 "On Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities in the Russian Federation", as amended on September 1, 2027, Article 14 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1995. No. 48. Art. 4563. ↩

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