But now, new research shows, many patients on dialysis have severe mental impairment.
Most of the children being denied benefits have mental impairments or behavioral problems.
Rather, disease, which often comes with aging, seems to cause mental impairment.
Would she have been aware of the mental impairment without the testing, the lawyer asked.
More than 30 percent of the people receiving disability benefits have mental impairments.
But we have much less experience with mental impairments.
But a person with a mental impairment is often in denial.
A program that trained and found jobs for 250 people with severe mental impairments has closed.
The law prohibits discrimination against people with physical and mental impairments.
They can lead to permanent disability, mental impairment, and even death.
Others may be associated, as we have seen, with mental or physical handicap.
It later provided treatment for people with other disorders, including physical and mental handicaps.
She often looked after her younger brother John, who was born with a mental handicap.
Those who did not were often disqualified because of a physical or mental handicap.
The mental handicap may also be related to brain disease.
The subject of mental handicap is thus largely considered as a 'problem' area within television drama.
Yet the media offer the major - if not only - means by which the British public can understand more about mental handicap.
The media could also do much more to help people to understand about mental handicap.
This is all the more true if one has a mental handicap.
Within these small communities, each person with a mental handicap has a special friend.
The Navy also turns down anyone with physical or mental defects, or a history of drug use.
"It gives us and the court an option to deal with people who may have mental defects."
One of the largest describes physical and mental defects.
Most who lived had severe mental or physical defects, or both.
He has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental defect.
Such people may get physical or mental defects which require treatment.
The assertion of a mental defect is not a defense in that sense.
Evidence goes to show that there is present a mental defect of the specific feeling.
It will be more than six months before any sign of mental defect is detectable, she said.
These wishes must be fulfilled to protect the fetus from physical or mental defects.