Essie L. Hodges v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Commissioner may rebut the presumption of adaptive deficits before age twenty-two by presenting evidence relating to a claimant’s daily activities and behavior
• reversing and remanding a disability case where the ALJ failed to presume from evidence of mental impairment after age 22 that the applicant had a mental impairment before age 22
• “a person’s IQ is presumed to remain stable over time in the absence of any evidence of a change in a claimant’s intellectual functioning”
• “IQ tests create a rebuttable presumption of a fairly constant IQ throughout her life.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).