This report deals with answers to a questionnaire given by 69 parents of retarded adolescents living in a community which, at the time of the study, offered little in terms of concrete services to mentally retarded persons. The inquiry concerned basically the parents' evaluation of the support they received from services or other sources and their concern about the child's future.

Abst rac t : A recent position taken by some mental retardation professionals poses a threat to the major gains made during the last two decades on behalf of mentally retarded persons. Their position holds that a substantial number of currently institutionalized persons are sub-trainable and should be assigned to enriched (institutional) living environments. This article refutes their ill-found...

2 studies compared intraindividual response variabilities of normals and retardates. In the 1st, involving a reaction time procedure, individual retardates were both slower and less consistent in their reactions. In the 2nd study, employing a short-term memory task, the mentally subnormal individuals were less accurate and more variable than normals. Variability of both groups increased as rete...

A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine.

It was my good fortune to be the guest of Dr. F. Douglas lurner and t e Royal Medico-Psychological Association on the occasion of the 1933 anni^a meeting of that Association at Clacton-on-Sea. This afforded an opportunity for meeting the leaders in the field of mental deficiency in England with w ose work I had heretofore been familiar only at a distance. It also mac*e , e brief visits to a few...

Most of the points that apply to dysphasic patients can usefully be remembered when dealing with the mentally handicapped, especially the following. (1) Use simple sentences, but do not "talk down." (2) Put instructions in writing; there will usually be someone in the patient's environment who can read. (3) Both truculence and shyness are often due to being in an unfamiliar environment, so putt...

Sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals occurs today despite little consensus in the medical community as to when sterilization is appropriate (Zurawin & Paransky, 2003). In addition, each state has different laws regarding sterilization of the mentally handicapped. Thus, nurses and nurse practitioners must navigate the complex social issues and legal uncertainties related to steriliz...

This article draws upon an extensive case management literature in order to integrate a number of key concepts and findings that must be considered by those responsible for the planning, administration, and provision of effective community care to the chronically mentally disabled. A discussion of the reasons for the current popularity of the case management concept within human services is fol...

The visual acuity of twelve multi-handicapped, mentally retarded subjects, diagnosed as deaf-blind, was measured on two occasions with the Teller Acuity Cards (TAC). Eight subjects scored above the criterion for legally blind and the results of six of these indicated various degrees of poor to approaching-normal eyesight. To evaluate high-level vision four subjects were tested with the Fagan Te...