Al-Qur'an is primary literacy for Muslims, including elementary age children. Likewise, mentally retarded children the ability to read Koran still leaves its own problems. This study aims describe efforts improve letters of Qur'an with mild mental retardation through bil hikmah method. The setting this research was in Class VII C Batubara State SLB, where class there were three initials MRF, ZM...

This article examines differences in access and use of care among children on Medicaid with physical disabilities, mental illness, and mental retardation/development disabilities (MR/DD) in New York City (NYC). We use 1999 and 2000 survey data obtained from the parents of a random sample of disabled children on Medicaid to conduct both descriptive and multivariate analyses. We find that the Med...

Association between oral health status and nutritional status was investigated in 200 semi-institutionalized persons with mental retardation aged 5-53 years, 45.5% female, in the cities of Florianópolis and São José, province of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In this cross-sectional study, clinical-odontological examination revealed a high percentage of individuals (68%) with heavily compromised denti...

Stress and coping in the families caring for their member with mental retardation has recently received worldwide research attention. There is no comprehensive instrument to study these issues in India. This study reports on development and standardization of a new instrument to fill this lacuna. Family Interview for Stress and Coping in Mental Retardation (FISC - MR), a semi-structured intervi...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of traditional - local games on the development of gross motor skills of children with educable mental retardation. 30 educable mentally retarded children in welfare organization of marivan city (mea age 12.8 ±1.12 yr and iq 33.61±7.81) were studied with purposive sampling method. all children were pretested; then, samples were randomly divide...

Foreign body ingestion is a problem generally found in children, some psychological diseases, and people with mental retardation. In most cases, they pass through the gastrointestinal tract, come out faeces rarely cause infection, local reaction, migration, or perforation. A computed tomography (CT) scan ideal choice for complicated case diagnosis. We report of pointed rusty nail, perforating s...

Aim of the study. Epilepsy often accompanies other neurological diseases or developmental problems in children. The purpose of the study is a strict and thorough assessment of children with past and coexisting neurological diseases or developmental abnormalities as well as defining the risk of epilepsy occurrence in this group of patients. Material and methods. The study was conducted at the De...

BACKGROUND We report autism in 3 out of 53 children with cystic or hyperechogenic kidneys and heterozygous 17q12 region deletion encompassing hepatocyte nuclear factor-1beta (HNF1B). RESULTS They presented mental retardation, social interaction impairments, verbal and non-verbal communication deficits and stereotyped behaviours. Deletion size and location of breakpoints were similar to those ...