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About 10% of the mentally retarded population is considered moderately retarded.
Moderately retarded individuals have IQ scores ranging from 35-55.
Moderate to profoundly retarded individuals usually require supervised community living.
They can carry out work and self-care tasks with moderate supervision.
Sharon Evans has written Reading achievement program for the moderately and severely retarded.
Mentally retarded person.
They typically acquire communication skills in childhood and are able to live and function successfully within the community in a supervised environment such as a group home.
Being partially differentiated, or not terminally differentiated.
Moderately is an adjective meaning within the regular limits and not to the extreme. Being moderately opposed to something would mean that one does not advocate radical ideology. One is more in the middle with one's opinions.
The word retard means to slow down. The literal meaning is slow or slowed.
warmth
As in mentally retarded, yes, only something with a brain can be mentally retarded. The GROWTH of plants can be retarded, which means they are not growing as fast as they should.