United States Eleventh Circuit

Mental retardation is presumed to be constant throughout life, and a Social Security claimant, who at the age of 22 presented evidence of low IQ test results, need not present evidence that she manifested deficits in adaptive functioning prior to this age.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2001
• Published 12/21/2001

Judges

• MORENO, District Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, BLACK, Circuit Judge, and MORENO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Frey, Jr.,James P. Frey, Jr., PC, Birmingham, AL, for Hodges., Shirley I. McCarty, Winfield J. Sinclair, Birmingham, AL, Marilynn Burt Kelm, Office of General Counsel, SSA, Atlanta, GA, for Barnhart.