3.3, quoting the Tajikistan Daily Digest, Eurasianet, 4 June 2004.

The insane and persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence

1969 Certificate Postgraduate Course on Mental Retardation, Letchworth Village, United States

1975 1980 Medical Doctor Great Oaks Mental Retardation Centre, Maryland, United States of America

See also Francis et al v. Trinidad and Tobago (Communication No.

Co founder of ASENIR (First Ecuadorian Association for the Care of the Mentally Retarded)

The reply from Trinidad and Tobago stated that the law did not allow the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence to be sentenced to death.

Special Olympics International (SOI) is the world apos s largest sports organization for persons with mental retardation.

In fact, according to JFBA, the court finds even the most mentally retarded people are completely mentally competent.

However, the decision did not lay down how mental retardation should be defined (although the majority quoted the definition used by the American Association of Mental Retardation and the American Psychiatric Association, both of which stressed significant sub average mental functioning ).

However, Bahrain and Morocco reported that they had no laws to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded.

But it appears that this is only insofar as mental retardation falls within the concept of abnormality of mind, defined as a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or inherent causes or induced by disease or injury .

1968 1970 Medical Doctor Lynchburg Training School and Hospital for the Mentally Retarded, Lynchburg, Va., United States of America

States should consider the adoption of special laws to protect the mentally retarded, incorporating existing international standards.

The Special Rapporteur also took action on behalf of two mentally retarded persons on whom capital punishment was imposed in the United States.

A man suffering severe psychic disorders, afflicted with a genetic retardation and an alcoholic father.

What then happens is not an across the board reduction in all your mental capacities, a sort of blunting of your cognitive ability.

Hell, what would we do there?

Even though most responding countries state that the insane and the mentally retarded are shielded from the infliction of the death penalty and especially from execution, reports of mentally ill and retarded persons facing the death penalty have continued to emerge during the five years covered by the seventh survey.

Schools preparing for a job (in particular for mentally handicapped young people with a slight degree of handicap, as well as for those with a serious associated handicap)

The goal is for all persons with mental retardation to have the chance to become useful and productive citizens who are accepted and respected in their communities.

In this regard, the report has highlighted the necessity of clarifying the safeguards to be applied to the mentally ill as opposed to the insane or the mentally retarded.

Forget it. Drinking dulls your senses.

Rouse yourself from this pastoral torpor.

Individual special educational programmes for students with severe mental retardedness or other serious development disorders are envisaged for a period of 9 years.

Since its inception in 1968, SOI has been a catalyst in helping to bring people with mental disability out of the shadows of neglect and into the mainstream of life.

The lack of interest in the problem on the part of society.

An issue of special concern to the Special Rapporteur remains the imposition and application of the death penalty on persons reported to be mentally retarded or mentally ill.

Membership in SOI during the four year reporting period has increased from 75 countries to 144, with 1.1 million athletes with mental retardation actively participating.

Think of the children on the slow side of the class.

You're not so usually slow on the uptake, Evans.

Just sweet and vague and terribly slow.

I'm a little slow till after my first drink.

To avoid iodine deficiency a common cause of mental retardation in children Myanmar had greatly increased iodized salt consumption to cover most households.

On 15 October, the experts and athletes shared their knowledge and experience at an International Symposium on Mental Retardation held in conjunction with the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons.

Over the last 15 years, UNICEF has led a global effort to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders, the most widespread cause of preventable mental retardation among children.

It all mother's fault, you know.

You sleep too much, that's what makes you such a knowall.

The imposition of the death penalty on mentally retarded persons, the lack of adequate defence, the absence of obligatory appeals and racial bias continue to be the main concerns.

The leave at its basic rate may be prolonged for the subsequent three year period if the child requires the personal care of the mother on account of his her health condition (chronic illness, handicap, mental retardation).

In Japan the weak minded cannot be sentenced to death, but the legal test of being able to distinguish right from wrong and the mental competence to act on that knowledge is so limited that JFBA reported that mental retardation is not necessarily included in weak minded .

I know I'm kind of slow sometimes, but I see things.

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

In addition, in paragraph 1 (d) resolution 1989 64, the Economic and Social Council recommended that States further strengthen the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty by eliminating the death penalty for persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence, whether at the stage of sentence or execution.

Oh, of all the stupid, tactless people I've ever...