Parents of fifty mentally retarded children were studied for their personality pattern with the help of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire. In fathers and mothers separately, none of the personality traits were observed to vary at statistically significant level in relation to the degree of retardation in their child, but both the parents of mildly retarded children obtained higher score on scale...

background: previous researches have shown that children with autism spectrum disorder and mental retardation have some dysfunctions in attention and inhibition functions. the present study evaluated the performance of attention and response inhibition in autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation and normal children.  methods: the method of this study was ex post factor, so 15 children with...

Mental retardation in children. An epidemiological and etiological study of mentally retarded children born 1959 1970 in a northern Swedish county. Hans K:son Blomquist, Department of Pediatrics, University of Umeå, S-901 85 Umeå, Sweden. In an unselected series of mentally retarded children in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden, the annual incidence of children with severe mental retardation (...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the ‘physical well-being, health and motor development inventory’ used to assess school readiness in ordinary and mentally retarded pre-school children. Methods: A descriptive study examining validity was conducted using random sampling. Two hundred students (160 ordinary and 40 mentally retarded children) ...