Parenting a mentally retarded child is not an easy task. Parents having a mentally retarded child experience a variety of ‘psychological stress’ related to the child’s disability. Parents especially mothers need every help and encouragement possible in their difficult task, which is, indeed, easier for them while the child is still a baby. The birth of a handicapped child is likely to be one of...

Luftig, Richard L. Ph.D., Purdue University, August 1980. Identification ani recall of structurally important units in verbal discourse as a function of the metacognitive processing of mentally retarded children. Major Professor: Ronald E. Johnson. This study investigated the ability of mentally retarded students to judge the structural importance of idea units in prose. In addition experimenta...

To study the population of a high-security forensic hospital, utilizing its criminal records, clinical diagnoses and victim profiles. The records of 269 patients male were analyzed. Psychotic disorders were the most common findings (58%). The most common type of crime was murder or attempted murder (52.8%), and there was a significant correlation between psychotic disorders and this type of cri...

Introduction. Unintentional foreign body ingestion commonly occurs accidentally in children aged between 3 months and 6 years and at advanced ages or results from psychiatric disorders such as hallucination in patients with mental retardation. Most of the ingested foreign bodies are naturally discharged from the body but some of them may require surgical intervention. Presentation of Case. A 29...

This study was conducted to determine the predictive ability of rated perceived exertion (WE) of mentally retarded (MR) young adults with respect to heart rate (HR) and workload (WL). Subjects were a group of 10 mentally retarded adults (M age = 21.20 yrs, M IQ = 50.5) and a control group of 10 nonretarded adults (M age = 21.18 yrs). The procedure involved the performance of a continuous multis...