According to the 1983 American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) definition, mental retardation refers to significantly subaverage intellectual functioning accompanied by
A) limitations in two or more areas of adaptive behaviour (such as self-care) .
B) having at least one relative with an IQ below average.
C) reading difficulties.
D) an Axis I mental disorder.
E) having at least one parent with an IQ below average.
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