Although sex offender risk assessment has progressed greatly over the past decade and a half since most states implemented the sexually violent predator/sexually dangerous person (SVP/SDP) laws, there continues to be limited applicability of such models to intellectually disabled sex offenders because there has been no empirical validation. However, SVP/SDP civil commitment programs have report...

Saint Dymphna, whose memory is celebrated on the 15th May, is one of the least familiar of all the saints; and yet the scene ?f her martyrdom is known by name to psychiatrists all over the world. On this day in Gheel, a small village in the moorland district called the Kampenland, some 25 miles from Antwerp, there are processions and public festivities; special services are held in the church w...

This is a refreshing and welcome addition to the many books written on education. Although it is addressed principally to Nursery School teachers (and parents of young children), there is much in it that is applicable to mentally handicapped children and all who work in Occupation Centres, or "School Departments" or as Home teachers, would do as well to consider the contents. Miss Gardner's sim...

In order to develop a curriculum especially for educable mentally retarded students at the high school level, this federally funded 1-year research project aimed to establish unique parameters involved in vocational adjustment for these students and to develop a tentative curriculum with this information. A literature review was conducted, and a research team interviewed supervisors, vocational...

These are three publications from the U.S.A. which reflect the ever-increasing prac" interest and concern in America about the well-being of the mentally handicapped. ^

TlHE President of the United States, 7John F. Kennedy, has called upon the American people to make "a "ontal attack on the problems of Rental retardation". In October last "e announced the appointment of a Panel of 27 distinguished persons and asked them to assume leadership in developing plans for a co-ordinated National approach to the problems of research, professional training and services ...

This paper deals with an aspect of the law relating to the use of a mentally handicapped victim as a prosecution witness in a criminal trial. Here the particular question was of the victim's competence to act as a witness, and the likely reliability, or otherwise of her evidence. The results of psychological testing were found to provide guidelines by which the court could distinguish between a...

1920, to visit and befriend all mentally handicapped people living at home and to help and advise parents about home care, especially the early training of young children. It assisted the local authority in administering the services provided under the Mental Deficiency Act. The newly-formed Association was faced with the tremendous task of compiling a register of mentally sub-normal persons in...