298 institutionalised mentally retarded patients in Institute of Mental Health, Madras were studied for the aetiological factors, levels of intelligence, associated disorders and family structure and compared with 163 matched group of mentally retarded attending the outpatient services of the Institute of Mental Health. In 41% of the institutionalised the cause was unknown, 29.3% had infective ...

hink back to all of the patients you have cared for during your nursing career. Some of them really stand out in your memory, don’t they? There was the young man with terminal cancer who was the same age as your son, the father of 2 growing boys who lost his limbs to pneumococcal sepsis, the mentally retarded 65year-old, so sweet, yet all alone as a ward of the court, and the young Marine who, ...

The first purpose of the studies reported was to compare the ability of autistic children in understanding false belief with the corresponding abilities of normal or mentally retarded children. Unexpected location tasks adapted from the SallyAnne false belief tasks were used in experiment 1. Autistic children performed worse than normal children and the mentally retarded children, but the diffe...

introduction: the rate of mild mental retardation is about 2 percent among school children. these children are able to satisfy their needs and meet the community expectations. therefore, educational programs must be designed in such a way that they help this population develop suitable and effective social relations. the aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of drama therapy ...

The magnitude of the problem of mental retardation in our country hardly needs any exaggeration. The psychological burden that these parents carry has been varied. The present study was undertaken to delineate the psychological problems of parents of mentally retarded children and to establish whether these problems were more prevalent in the parents of mentally retarded children than in the pa...

with the care and welfare of the mentally retarded. Amongst other things, this new syllabus seeks to divert the nurse's attention from over-preoccupation with the bedside nursing care of sick people to the education, in the simplest but most comprehensive sense of the word, of physically healthy boys and girls. The wisdom of the change in outlook is unquestionable. Even an uninformed layman vis...

In 1974 Fountain1 was the first to report on the association of mental retardation, deafness, and skeletal abnormalities in four sibs (three boys and one girl). Two of them developed progressive swelling of the lips and in one of them an eroded, granulomatous mass appeared in the lower lip. In 1987 we examined three moderately to severely mentally retarded males, two brothers and one isolated m...