Mental Retardation is Changed to Intellectual and Development Disabilities

Mental retardation is used to call people who have learning difficulties. The term has been considered inappropriate. There was a need for an proper word to address these people. Now, according to the ICD 11, the term is replaced by 'intellectual and development disabilities'. This new term addresses and describes people with learning difficulties very well.The new term gives more respect to such people.Even though 'mental retardation' is still been widely used, even among medical professionals, the new term will come in to use in the near future.