In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the range of 60-70, which indicates a severe cognitive disability[1].
During my medical review, the mothers revealed that their children were shaken violently as infants and that afterward behaved as if “the wind had been knocked...