Intellectual Disability Nursing

Persons with mental retardation enter a group of persons with disabilities. We also use the term “persons withdevelopmental disabilities” and “persons with special needs” but recently, for persons with mental retardation, weuse the term “persons with intellectual disabilities”. Sometimes negative opinions and negative attitudes, violenceand discrimination were not directed against them, but such practices were advancing to the social pattern ofbehavior towards them. Even today we are witnessing that there is still a pattern of behavior toward them. Althoughsociety has been educating and expanding its vision and understanding of the world around it, it often happens thattheir abilities and their abilities create superficial conclusions. The presence of mental retardation does not justifyany form of discrimination. Although more and more institutions dealing with improving the lives of persons withintellectual disabilities, they are in some ways deprived of their own choice and decision-making.