No. The evaluation and classification intellectual disability is a complex issue. There are three major criteria for intellectual disability: significant limitations in intellectual functioning, significant limitations in adaptive behavior, and onset before the age of 18.ntellectual disability encompasses the âcognitiveâ part of this definition, that is, a disability that is broadly related to thought processes. Because intellectual and other developmental disabilities often co-occur, intellectual disability professionals often work with people who have both types of disabilities.
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia is an inherited condition that can result in patients having arteriovenous malformations (artery to vein direct connection with no capillaries in between). These malformations can be very small and called âtelangiectasiasâ or they can be large and called âAVMsâ (arteriovenous malformations).
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasis. The following was extracted from HHT International Foundation's web site : -. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is a genetic disorder of the blood vessels which affects about one in 10,000 people. It affects males and females from all racial and ethnic groups. Most blood vessels in the body of someone with HHT are normal.