The assessment of intellectual disability: ‘Looking at your assessments we think you have an intellectual disability’ – What does this mean?

Abstract

This article describes the development of an informative booklet designed to provide information and support to individuals recently assessed and told that they have an intellectual disability. The booklet uses the term ‘learning disability’ as this terminology is more widely used within the Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humberside NHS Foundation Trust. However, the text within this article tends to refer to ‘intellectual disability’ as this is consistent with the term used by the FPID Bulletin.