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Intellectual Disability

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period. This has multiple potential etiologies, including genetic defects and perinatal insults. Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are commonly used to determine whether an individual has an intellectual disability. IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline range. Scores below 67 are in the disabled range. (from Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28) Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 3009 Collections and/or Records:

30.121 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"Nice girl, dull, not so bright."


Siblings: 30.122, 30.120, 30.123

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.122 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"Average but on the dull side."


Siblings: 30.121, 30.120, 30.123

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.123 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"IQ 72, terribly dull, but when he leaves school he will be a successful farmer."


Siblings: 30.122, 30.121, 30.120

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.124 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Head injury, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"IQ 72, very delicate and dull, fractured skull in 1940. [Male informant] says he is a pampered and spoilt child but very conscientious. PC confirms - delicate and spoilt. [Male informant]: Very dull but awfully nice, quiet, does his best but hasn't much idea how to do it. Can read and write, good at woodwork. Father, hunchbacked. Mother one of four illegitimate siblings, her tongue never stops. Home conditions very good, clean, harmonious. Dr - a bad defective, Mother is OK."

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.125 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, December 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"IQ 75. She was an adopted child."

Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.126 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"Definitely peculiar, a funny body, you cannot make head or tail of her, her kitchen is her world. They are all the same, not a vestige of intellect, but decent. Quite fit to get on with what brains they have got."


Children: 30.127, 30.128, 30.129

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.127 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"Dull, nothing to say for herself. Now in A.A.S."


Siblings: 30.128, 30.129 Mother: 30.126

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.128 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"IQ 76. Very backward, as an infant didn't speak until late, you could never get a word out of her. Now just at home, one of a bapfaced family, never gives you a smile. Father a farmer."


Siblings: 30.127, 30.129 Mother: 30.126

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.130 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"IQ 72, was dull at school but anything but dull since he left school. Knows how to look after himself, will turn his hand to anything, is like a needle. Sells Sunday papers, takes the money at the cinema etc. Really an apprentice tailor. Lives with his grandmother in a ruined house."


Mother: 30.8

Dates: Other: November 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30

30.133 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, December 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"A wee bit deformed in his feet, a porter."


Father: 30.132 Siblings: 30.134, 30.108

Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 30