[Self determination as an axis to evaluate and intervene with intellectually disabled people]. / La autodeterminación como eje de evaluación e intervención en la Discapacidad Intelectual.

The article describes in an original way the concept of self-determination, including an analysis of its components and effects. The authors detail two groups of disorders of self-determination: subjective dissipation and subjective alienation. They sustain that this theoretical framework explains more fully the clinics of Intellectual Disability (DSM's Mental Retardation) and is more useful than IQ to orient teaching, therapeutic and rehabilitative interventions. The authors propose that the level and profile of self-determination of a person with intellectual disability should be utilized to sub-classify people with mental retardation diagnose, replacing the ranges of IQ traditionally used, and criticized as well, for useless.

[Nosology of mental retardation]. / Nosotaxia y nosología del retraso mental.

The classificatory systems used through history. The analysis of their criteria for categorization allowed the authors to deduce the nosologic considerations and the paradigms underlying the conceptions of mental retardation sustained in each time period, not always from psychiatric origins. The effects of considering mental retardation as a disorder or a disability are discussed together with the correlation with the type of interventions and instituted social practices (related to mental health, social participation, education). The characteristics of the supports' paradigm and its consequences in the classifications and intervention plans are analyzed with more detail.