The main purposes of the present analysis were to describe the causes of intellectual disability (ID) and examine its overtime change from 2000 to 2007 in Taiwan. Data of the present study mainly come from the public web-access information which collected by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interiors, Taipei, Taiwan. Data were obtained from two ways of 2000-2007 national data: (1) ...

This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and intensity of D. folliculorum brevis in mentally disabled individuals receiving care support services rehabilitation centers Erzincan province. The included 217 participants who were 7 separate operating provincial center Erzincan. Sample materials taken from cheek, nasolabial chin area each participant by Standard Superficial Skin Biopsy ...

AUTHOR Glali3, Sister Mary Paulette TITLE The 'Thfluence of Typewriting on Selected Lanauage Arts qkills and Mot-or Development of the Flucable Mentally Handicapped, Volure T. Final Fepect. INSTITUTION North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. SPONS AGENCY Pureaq of Education for the Panlicapped (DH'W/Ct)t Washington, P.C. BUPEA9 N9 PP-44-2199 PUB DATE Aua 7() GRANT 0EG-0-70-1220(60') NOTE 12p.: Doctora...

In his interesting account of the history of Brentry Hospital, Dr. Jancar describes the work of the Burdens who came to Bristol in 1895. This era, le fin de siecle, was a golden age for the well-endowed. The rich were very rich thanks to the bounties of the industrial revolution. The arts flourished and were well-patronised; new and interesting forms were emerging in the visual arts and in lite...

The United States Supreme Court, in the recent case of Riggins v. Nevada, extended its examination of the issue of involuntary treatment with antipsychotic medication to the mentally disabled facing criminal trial. A criminal defendant who is "incompetent to stand trial" cannot be subjected to trial. Many such persons are committed to hospitals to be treated and rendered "competent to stand tri...

Being mentally handicapped doesn't relieve people of their capacity for emotion, tenderness and concern. In hospital they should still be able to experience the pleasures and annoyances of ordinary 'family' life to the greatest extent possible.

Work performance and duration of stay of 79 mentally handicapped persons attending a day care centre was evaluated and correlated with demographic and clinical variables. Work performance was below average in 37% and average in 30%. No definite relationship was established between duration of stay or work performance with any of the demographic or clinical variables.

"Stoke Park with associated Hospitals have a long record of illustrious research into the field of Mental Handicap, associated with such famous names as Berry, Norman, Fraser Roberts, Golla and Grey Walter, and also an outstanding record for the provision of services for the mentally handicapped... I consider that the field of mental handicap is one of the most promising areas of psychiatry for...

SEVEN miles from Aberdeen, on the lovely road to Braemar, lies the Newton Dee Estate, recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped. There is a fundamental difference between it and most other "sheltered workshops," for it is a social experiment, and all who are there not only share the working life, but live together as a really integrated village co...