A total of 217 mentally retarded people in auxiliary schools and sunshine homes took the action test implemented by self-developed testing tools. The results of statistical treatment indicates as follows: there is no significant difference in projects featuring imitation between the moderate or severe and the mild mentally retarded people; The relationship between intelligence quotient (IQ) and...

This study was conducted to determine the predictive ability of rated perceived exertion (WE) of mentally retarded (MR) young adults with respect to heart rate (HR) and workload (WL). Subjects were a group of 10 mentally retarded adults (M age = 21.20 yrs, M IQ = 50.5) and a control group of 10 nonretarded adults (M age = 21.18 yrs). The procedure involved the performance of a continuous multis...

The crucial factor involved in habilitating the mentally retarded, or other individuals, for produc­ tive employment is not, as is often erroneously as­ sumed, the decision concerning the vocation that the client may succeed in, but the position that is taken concerning this unique person. In this re­ gard, an analysis of the habilitation process indicates that at each decision-making point a p...

J. B. Lippincott Co. London: Pitman Medical Publishing (Jo. Pp. 203. 32s. The number of useful texts on mental deficiency is small, especially those by psychologists, so that a new volume written by the chief clinical psychologist of the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, New York, is opened with interest. The author, Harold Michal-Smith, draws a clear picture of the inadequacy of the social se...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of group coping skills training on reducing stress of mothers with mentally retarded children's. methods: the research method was quasi experimental with pre-test and post-test design with a control group. population of the study was all of the mothers of mentally retarded children's that referred to welfare or...

In this article, the authors present a resident-based reimbursement system for intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICFs-MR), which represent a large and growing proportion of the medicaid budget. The statistical relationship between resident disability level and the expected cost of caring for the individual is estimated, allowing for the prediction of expected resource use ...

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical popu...