Essays on Mental Retardation

Can a Mentally Challenged Parent Raise a Child On Their Own? Children are complicated, challenging, and demanding. Even the best parents have difficulty raising them from helpless babies to fully-fledged capable adults. If the parent is hardly able to take care of themselves, how are…

Criminal Law A More Rational Approach to a Disturbing Subject In 2002, in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the execution of persons with mental retardation violates the Eighth Amendment’s ostracize on fiendish and odd punishment. The next…

Two Tails of the Normal Curve, Similarities and Differences in the Study of Mental Retardation and Giftedness was the collaborated efforts of three developmental psychologists; Nancy M. Robinson, University of Washington, Edward Zigler of Yale University and James J. Gallagher of the University of Chapel…