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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:

6.61 Male, Single, 14 yrs or under, High grade mental defective, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents "Attended the special class in Annan, very dull. Father a canny working man. Dairyman. Mother the dirtiest woman [male informant] has ever come across, just a handsbreadth removed from an animal. Sister - dirty, big girl, a slut. Were warned to leave as they were so dirty. Hopeless crowd, hardly ever at school. [Male informant] - Dr very much at fault - left the children for at least 4 months with [6.62] after he had reported strongly against it. In the end he had them removed off his own...
Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.62 Female, 35-44yrs, High grade mental defective, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"The dirtiest woman [male informant] has ever come across, just a handsbreadth removed from an animal."


Children: 6.62, 6.65

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.64 Male, Single, 14 yrs or under, Dull and Backward, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

""Mental". Mother dead, father a miner. Was boarded out by father after mother's death and very badly neglected."

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.65 Male, Single, 14 yrs or under, Low grade mental defective, February 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"Peculiar, something wrong with his brain, just grunted, ate faeces etc. Died of TB."

Dates: Other: February 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 6

6.67 Male, Single, 15-24yrs, Dull and Backward, May 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"IQ 72. [Male informant] says they were a respectable family, not overbright. Now married, a farm worker."

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.68 Female, Single, 35-44yrs, High grade mental defective, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"A little bit simple, not markedly so. The mother of three illegitimate children. House not very clean, overcrowded. [Male informant] says she treats her children as if they were calves - indoors for a year and then just turns them out in any weather. Works fairly steadily but was o.o.w [out of work] last year."


Sister 6.69 daughter 6.71

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.69 Female, Single, 15-24yrs, Low grade mental defective, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"Certified MD. Can just giggle. Father has an awful temper, has got his knife into the schoolmaster."


Sister 6.68, niece 6.71

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.71 Female, Single, 14 yrs or under, Dull and Backward, Maladjusted child, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"Seen at OPC. Backward, not MD. Illegitimate - guardian is her grandfather. [Male informant] - was very disobediant at school, would not do what she was told."

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.75 Female, Single, 14 yrs or under, Dull and Backward, Physical illness or invalidism, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"Dull and backward, looks ill, has had TB bowel."


Mother: 6.73, sibling: 6.74

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6

6.78 Male, Single, 15-24yrs, Dull and Backward, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"IQ 78, dull, now working in the ironmonger's. Father a farm servant. Mtoher, 30-40, a bit stick in the mud, wouldn't take on school cleaning. Unenterprising. Clean, decent people, not overcrowded, children well clad."

Dates: Other: May 1947
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 6