Minding Your P’s and Q’s MENTAL RETARDATION: SEVERITY AND SURVIVAL
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Mental retardation is considered an Axis II diagnosis under the DSM, where "specific developmental disorders" are grouped along with disorders of personality. A diagnosis of mental retardation under the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association) generally requires significantly subaverage intellectual function with concurrent deficits or impairments in adaptive functioning and onset before age 18. The ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition) uses the same numerical codes for mental retardation (317-319) that the DSM does, which basically classifies by severity.
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