From a survey of published data on the Wechsler subtest performance of primarily mild and borderline mentally retarded persons, 4304 protocols from 4004 individuals were collated and their subtest patterns on the WAIS, WAIS-R, WISC, and WISC-R were compared. Rank order correlations of subtest scores on the different scales were statistically reliable for all but the WAIS/WAIS-R comparison. On a...

As part of an ongoing multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention project, a group of 39 mentally retarded children and adults received eye examinations. This paper focuses on two aspects of the visual analysis; strabismus and ocular pathology. The occurrence of each of these entities exceeds the expected ranges for a random population and concurs with previously found reported findings in r...

It is important to control abnormal behaviour and hyperactivity, and improve cognition in mentally retarded children (MRC), which would help in their education, training and subsequent rehabilitation. Recently it has become known that amongst other side-effects, protracted use of anti-convulsant medication induces cognitive and behavioural dysfunction, which is a major problem in mentally retar...