[The concept of retardation: is it up to describing very profound cerebral disabilities? (author's transl)].
The widespread terminological habit of describing and explaining even very profound disabilities along the conceptual lines of developmental retardation is critically appraised and commented. Emphasis is given to essential, if often unidentified or unsaid, implications of this explanatory approach, i.e. the assumption of common characteristics in the "retarded" person and the "non retarded" younger person, implying the optimistic fiction of a contigency for "catching up" on present developmental delays. This conceptual model is discarded as representing a deceptive euphemism, springing from the absence of an anthropology that posits acceptance of a human being regardless of his or her being different without challenging the fact of his or her humanness and intrinsic rights.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis
Taugt der Begriff der Retardierung zur Beschreibung schwerster zereraler Behinderungen?