BACKGROUND The study was carried out with the aim of determining the factors affecting and to evaluate anxiety situations and self-esteem of children with and without mentally retarded siblings. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sampling included 227 healthy children: 108 of them have mental retarded sibling and 119 of them do not have mental retarded sibling. The context of this study consisted of 1...

People with problems of visual sequencing and impaired immediate memory have difficulty placing telephone calls independently. A Call Aid, created from an inexpensive spiral-bound pad of 3 X 5 inch cards, enabled people with visual sequencing problems to make a telephone call independently. In a pre-test, post-test study, nine of ten trainable mentally handicapped adolescents, IQ range 40-55, w...

DOCUMENT RESUME EC 041 653 Madsen, Millard C.; Connor, Catherine Cooperative and Competitive Behavior of Retarded and Non-Retarded Children at Two Ages. California Univ., Los Angeles. Early Childhood Research Center. Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D.C. [72] 12p. MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Behavior Patterns; *Elementary School Students; *Exceptional Child Research; *Interpersonal Relationsh...

The social adaptation of mentally disabled adults introduced to two new vocational rehabilitation settings was investigated. Client behavior was observed for 8 weeks after placement in an evaluation center and for an additional 8 weeks in subsequent workshop settings. During the evaluation period, clients' sociability increased with time in the program. In the later workshop placements, the soc...

President Kennedy's legislation on community mental health centres has encouraged much detailed planning for comprehensive mental health programmes throughout the United States. Urban areas have special features in this respect, due to the density of population, the reduction of family privacy, the instability of social norms, and the juxtaposition of privilege and deprivation. The problem is t...

Autism is a behavioural syndrome characterized by qualitative impairments in reciprocal social interaction and communication; the presence of restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests and activities; and, abnormal development before 36 months of age (ICD 10) (WHO, 1991). The children described by Kanner (1943) were said to be of normal intelligence, and for many ye...

In his preface (which is over a third of the length of Nigel's own contribution) Mr. Hunt writes with understandable emotion and some lack of objectivity. He certainly seems to have been unfortunate in his experience of 'experts' and some of the statutory services for the mentally handicapped. It would be a pity if members of the general public and the parents of other mongols were persuaded by...

303 Job satisfaction and occupational stress among general prac.tioners a pilot study Peter J. Makin, Usharani Rout and Cary L. Cooper 307 General practitioner obstetrics: does risk prediction work? J.L. Reynolds, P.L. Yudkin and M.J. V. Bull 311 Psychiatric screening in general practice: comparison of the general health questionnaire and the hospital anxiety depression scale M.J.B. Wilkinson a...

DOC UME NT RES UME EC 042 066 Gottlieb, Jay; Budoff, Milton Attitudes Toward School by Segregated and Integrated Retarded Children: A Study and Experimental Validation. Volume 2, Number 35. Research Inst. for Educational Problems, Cambridge, Mass. Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, D.C. BR-8-0506 72 OEG-0-8-080506-4597 (607) 12p. MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Educable Mentally ...

No State should consider itself either humane, or efficient from a business point of view, which continues to support in idleness any of its dependents (not excluding those physically or mentally handicapped), who might, under proper training and supervision, become at least partially self-supporting. But as a rule it is not until an intolerable weight of taxes drives a state into new methods o...