In a cross sectional study the mental health of parents of physically and mentally handicapped preschool children was compared with that of parents of healthy preschool children. The social networks of the parents with handicapped children were also studied to determine factors that might influence psychiatric morbidity. The mothers of the handicapped children showed significantly more psychiat...

Doctors are regularly confronted with requests for sterilisation of mentally handicapped people who cannot give consent for themselves. They ought to act in a medical vacuum because there doesn't exist a consensus about a model for decision making on this matter. In this article a model for decision making is proposed, based on a review of the literature and our own research data. We have attem...

Some peoples cannot able to operate computers because of an illness. The idea of eye controls of great use to not only the future of natural input but more importantly the handicapped and disabled. Moreover implementing a controlling system in it enables them to operate computer without the help of another person. It is more helpful to handicapped peoples. Those are need to operate computers wi...

AUTHOR Lazar, Alfred L.; And Others TITLE Attitudes of Handicapped and Non-Handicapped University Students on Three Attitude Scales. INSTITUTION California State Univ., Long Beach. Dept. of Educational Psychology. SPONS AGENCY Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 76 GRANT GOO-74-02794 NOTE 22p.; Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the California E...

Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental syndrome with arrest in brain development. The disorder is caused by a faulty gene on the X chromosome, mainly affecting females. The syndrome usually manifested itself through vast clinical impairments in functional abilities including motor disability. According to different studies only 50-75% of all affected females will achieve walking ability, a...

The recently enacted Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 (P .L. 95-602) amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to establish a National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR) . This new Institute has charged with the prime responsibility of providing the required knowledge for defining needs, and of identifying the means for improving servi...

"DEDICATED TO THOMAS WALMSLEY." This statement alone will make many generations of medical men from Belfast consider that this book must be a model of original thought lucidly expressed. The principles are indeed set out with a clarity and in a logical sequence that fully justify the dedication. Nevertheless, it is not an "easy" book in the generally accepted sense of the term, for it is never ...

Mental Health 1965-66 states that it is estimated that half of the 64,000 patients in hospitals for the mentally subnormal could leave hospital if there were suitable accommodation and adequate support for them in the community. The validity of this statement is substantiated by a study of the referrals to the admission bureau at this hospital for the mentally subnormal which serves a populatio...