prevention of disabilities and handicaps, including mental relardation and low intelligence, is one of the important aims of health programmes. therefore, understanding the causes of such disabilities could reduce their incidence. a cause of low iq and mental retardation is prematurity and this could be the result of low age of mothers at the time of pregnancy. this study investigates the relat...

A TWO -PHASE PROJECT CONCERNED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEECH THERAPY WITH EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR) CHILDREN IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL SETTING HAD TWO OBJECTIVES -TO ASSEMBLE A REASONABLY COMPLETE PICTURE OF ARTICULATION OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN AND TO DETERMINE. THE VALUE OF SPEECH THERAPY TO EMR CHILDREN WITH ARTICULATION DEFICIENCIES. THE HEJNA ARTICULATION TESTS AND A SPEEC...

BACKGROUND Health expectancies, taking into account both quality and quantity of life, have generally been based on disability and physical functioning. AIMS To compare mental health expectancies at age 25 and 55 based on common mental disorders both across countries and between males and females. METHOD Mental health expectancies were calculated by combining mortality data from population ...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were: (i) to determine the relation between chronological and functional age; (ii) to examine the association between chronological age and work outcomes; and (iii) to examine the association between functional age and work outcomes. An overview of the most reported work outcomes is outlined. METHODS Chronological age refers to the calendar age; functional ag...

The purpose of this study was to examine the potential universality of age differences in romantic attachment. Relatively few studies have investigated attachment processes beyond young adulthood and very little is known about age differences in romantic attachment orientations in geographic regions outside North America. We examined attachment anxiety and avoidance among 90,904 Internet respon...

This study examines whether speech sound production of toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) is on par with or more severely impaired than that of mental age (MA) peers with developmental delay due to aetiologies other than Down syndrome at two points within an 18-month period near the onset of spoken word production. The utterances of 26 children with DS, aged 24-33 months, with a mean MA of 14.3 m...

The present study examined (a) the relative impact visual and phonetic factors have on learning phoneme-grapheme correspondences, and (b) the relationship between measures of visual and phonological processing and children's ability to learn novel phoneme-grapheme correspondence pairs. Participants were 20 children with reading disabilities (RD), 10 normally achieving children matched for menta...

objective: psychiatric distress and work related stress may have a profound effect on an individual's well-being .the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence rate of mental health problems and their distribution by age, educational level, marital status and years of employment in a chocolate manufacturing company in iran .the general health questionnaire (a widely used screening instru...