TABLE 3.

Professional survey (n=101)

If during your work with this family you needed to describe to them Thomas’ learning, would you use the term:
	Never	Rarely	Frequently	Always
Mental retardation (all professionals: n=101)	71	23	6	0
Physicians (n=49) and psychologist (n=8)	53*	37	10	0
Other professionals (n=44)	95*	5	0	0
Developmental delay	2	11	60	27
Mentally challenged	58	33	9	0
Intellectually disabled	60	29	11	0

Data presented as %.

^*P<0.001