First of all, Dr. Iinuma is to be congratulated for studying this population of patients. Patients with mental disabilities represent one of the largest populations in pediatric epilepsy. However, researchers generally tend to either not address this population as a special group, or to avoid such studies because of the behavior difficulties and other challenges. The differences in the frequenc...

OBJECTIVE To study extensively the therapeutic approach of gastroesophageal reflux disease in intellectually disabled children. DESIGN We studied the effect of omeprazole sodium on healing and symptom relief in 52 institutionalized intellectually disabled children (male-female, 21:31; mean age, 15.4 years; range, 4-19 years). INTERVENTION Endoscopically proven esophagitis (grades I-IV, Sava...

This paper includes four main stream writers of Indian origin, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Jaisree Misra and Anita Desai who have effectively projected an Intellectually Disabled character into mainstream writing. Though many a reading has been done on these writers, one aspect of scrutiny that has been constantly overlooked is the politics of representation of the Intellectually Disabled ...

OBJECTIVE To compare sexual and behavioral puberty problems between intellectually disabled (ID) and normal boys in Yazd, Iran. METHODS In the present study, 65 intellectually disabled and 65 normal boys were included. The Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) was used to investigate behavioral problems. In order to study sexual problems, a questionnaire that was designed by the researchers was ap...