How to Use developmentally disabled in a Sentence

developmentally disabled

adjective
  • All but one of the 22 clients in the case are developmentally disabled, and many cannot read or write.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The prison does not have programs for those, like Atkins, who are developmentally disabled.
    — Meg Kissinger and Steve Schultze, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Adult day centers work with developmentally disabled adults, as well as those who have had strokes or have diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Miggy lived with his parents and was devoted to his much younger sister, who is developmentally disabled.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
  • That means getting the vaccine to nursing homes, group homes, and people who are developmentally disabled.
    — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • My daughter's community is made up of her peers and the people who have chosen to work with the developmentally disabled.
    — Sylvia Worden, latimes.com, 14 May 2018
  • This is the second story in my search for a home for my developmentally disabled daughter, Anabel.
    — Sylvia Worden, latimes.com, 14 May 2018
  • Will her lover abandon his wife and their daughter, who is profoundly developmentally disabled?
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The call also mentioned the teen was developmentally disabled.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The proposals should have roughly half the units designed for developmentally disabled adults and the rest for veterans.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
  • So did Rubinowitz’s developmentally disabled brother, Ben, who died two and a half years ago.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Minor said her adult nephew, who is developmentally disabled, was tasered after police stopped him walking down a street in Gulf Shores.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Some health department spending, such as services for developmentally disabled children, was mandated by law and could not be cut.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Brady’s dear pal Lane Scott, sidelined from rodeo and developmentally disabled by an even worse injury, appears as himself.
    — Colin Covert, kansascity, 31 May 2018
  • The developmentally disabled man was in the passenger seat, Connor said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Acevedo’s mother also formed a Girl Scout troop for developmentally disabled girls at her youngest daughter’s school.
    — Erin Delmore, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But the requirements did not extend to homes for the developmentally disabled, where the overall population is smaller but the virus is still taking a heavy toll.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2020
  • Schaeffer lives in Rochester, New York, and spent the last decade managing a home for developmentally disabled adults.
    — Jennifer Swann, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • That means the developmentally disabled residents are temporarily in need of a new home, according to the fire department.
    — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, 27 June 2018
  • Rita continues to help out those in need at a group home for the developmentally disabled in Madisonville, where JR would sometimes help.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • His brother Joe had been rushed by ambulance from his home for the developmentally disabled to the emergency room with a possible case of the coronavirus.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2020
  • There are also other groups that now qualify for vaccine that have little means of getting themselves to a large clinic, such as the homeless, housebound and developmentally disabled.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The grandmother told the ship’s doctor that the teenager is developmentally disabled, with the mental capacity of a 12-year-old, records show.
    — Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Hutchinson said the current waiver for the developmentally disabled serves more than 5,000 Arkansans.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Indeed, some developmentally disabled people may have a hard time complying with the measures — masking, distancing and so on — that are the other major means of preventing the spread of the virus.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • The victim, who was developmentally disabled, lived with the grandmother who raised him, The San Diego Union reported at the time.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • And as of right now, her family is still not being told what happened to their beloved sister and aunt, a developmentally disabled woman, who would have celebrated her 77th birthday just a few days ago.
    — Stefano Dipietrantonio, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • An East Chicago man is the third to face charges in connection with a developmentally disabled man’s slaying near a McDonald’s on the state line last year.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • An investigation by the police found that Granados took his son, who is developmentally disabled and blind, to his grandmother’s house in Hanover Park.
    — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The new licenses have greater fraud protections and also include a space to list if the holder is developmentally disabled, a requirement the Legislature passed a couple years ago.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2017

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