^after 18 its classed as brain injury,am surprised anyone in the older child or teen years have been diagnosed with [aquired] ID as its a developmental disability and is characterised by missing/late developmental milestones,brain injury is different circumstances and developmental history.
an uncle of mine in his fifties has PMLD [profound and multiple learning disability,which in american terms means profound intelectual disability,it affects everything from feeding himself to walking to moving etc].
mum says that as a baby he had been 'normal',and whilst cleaning, her mum had pressed the cradle cap[?] not knowing what she was doing [this is how mum put it,perhaps she just blamed the nearest thing she coud and hadnt realised he was born that way],there were no hospitals back then in her part of ireland so there wasnt any immediate help for them. despite the alleged brain injury william is diagnosed with PMLD.
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>severely autistic.
>>the residential autist;
http://theresidentialautist.blogspot.co.uk
blogging from the view of an ex institutionalised autism/ID activist now in community care.
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21 Aug 2014, 2:34 am
