developmental disability

English

Noun

developmental disability (plural developmental disabilities)

1. Any life-long disability attributable to mental and/or physical impairments, manifested during childhood or later in the human development age (variously given as being before age 16, 18, or 21).
2. (euphemistic) Mental retardation.

Synonyms

• developmental disorder
• DD

Hyponyms

• learning disability
• intellectual disability
• cognitive disability

Translations

disability

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發育殘疾 / 发育残疾 (fāyù cánjí), 發育障礙 / 发育障碍 (fāyù zhàng'ài)

• Finnish: kehitysvamma (fi)
• German: Entwicklungsstörung f
• Icelandic: þroskahömlun f
• Korean: 발달장애(發達障碍) (baldaljang'ae)
• Russian: расстро́йство разви́тия n (rasstrójstvo razvítija), наруше́ние разви́тия n (narušénije razvítija), отста́лость разви́тия f (otstálostʹ razvítija)
• Serbo-Croatian: сметња у развоју
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can