Intellectual Development Deficiency Versus Intellectual Disability: a Subject to Discuss

Abstract

Through a dialogic, this article has the general objective of problematizing the intellectual disability terminology of the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The above emerges from the multidisciplinary evaluations in the attention to infants with problems in school learning in the Songo-La Maya municipality, Cuba. Taking professional experiences into account, it was decided to change the terminology intellectual disability for deficit in intellectual development in the Diagnostic Impression section of the clinical history, demonstrating that it was affordable for family members and the previous terminology was less pejorative; since said concept does not label the ruled scholar and is new in the field of special psychology. International experts are urged to change the term intellectual disability to deficit in intellectual development, but not in their clinical criteria in the nosological entity.