境きょう界かい知ち能のう

noun

borderline intellectual functioning

Clinical term used in psychiatry and psychology to describe intellectual ability that is below average but not meeting the criteria for intellectual disability. Often abbreviated as BIF.

• 境きょう界かい知ち能のうの子こどもは、通つう常じょう学がっ級きゅうで学がく習しゅう面めんや対たい人じん面めんで困こん難なんを抱かかえることがある。

  Children with borderline intellectual functioning may face academic and interpersonal difficulties in regular classrooms.

• 境きょう界かい知ち能のうは、知ち能のう指し数すうが70から84程てい度どの範はん囲いを指さすことが多おおい。

  Borderline intellectual functioning often refers to an IQ range of about 70 to 84.