The Mentally Retarded in Society. By Stanley Powell Davies, with the collaboration of Katherine G. Ecob. Columbia University Press; London : Oxford University Press, 1959. 45s. As the author points out, this volume endeavours to present Cental retardation in its social rather than clinical aspects. Based ?n two earlier books, one published in 1923 and another in 1930, The Mentally Retarded in S...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of focus of attention on learning dart throwing in mentally retarded children.in this quasi-experimental study, 22 mentally retarded boys (age 10-12 years old) were randomly selected according to iq (50-70) and were assigned to two homogenous attention (internal, external) groups after the pretest and a training session according to the obtain...

Group Hospital were accepted as educable by ten Education Authorities and they were transferred to appropriate schools. In addition three children under 5 years were found on admission to be of average intelligence. All forty-four children had been admitted to this hospital of approximately 700 beds for low grade mentally defective children. It was considered that the progress of these educable...