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Intellectual disabilities are characterized by impaired intellectual function, around which a particularly fragile personality is organized. This essay explores the need to compare medical and pedagogical approaches, not only regarding neuropsychic functions such as memory and attention that can hinder learning, but also the metacognitive skills that nourish intelligence itself in all its dimensions, and allow it to play its role in the process of adapting to the environment and relational growth.