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Western Australia - Glossary Term
Mentally Deficient ( - )
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- Term commonly found on child welfare records
- Alternative Names
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- Educationally Retarded
- Backward Child
- Retarded Scholastically
- Mentally Retarded
- Mental Defective
- Location
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The term mentally deficient was used in Western Australia from around the 1920s to the late 1970s to describe people with intellectual disabilities. Other terms included educationally retarded, mentally retarded, backward and retarded scholastically.
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