a condition that limits a person's intellectual capacity, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
The Government should take immediate steps to end discrimination against people withmental disabilities.
Examples of 'mental disability' in a sentence
mental disability
The victims were vulnerable adults who were unable to take care of themselves or require social care because of physical or mental disabilities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Vulnerable adults are those who cannot look after themselves because of physical or mental disabilities, frailty or drug addiction.
The Sun (2011)
The factories, set up to provide jobs for injured servicemen, now have staff with a range of physical and mental disabilities.