The Mentally Retarded in Society. By Stanley Powell Davies, with the collaboration of Katherine G. Ecob. Columbia University Press; London : Oxford University Press, 1959. 45s. As the author points out, this volume endeavours to present Cental retardation in its social rather than clinical aspects. Based ?n two earlier books, one published in 1923 and another in 1930, The Mentally Retarded in S...

The fears of 133 boys and girls aged 7 to 19, classified as educable mentally retarded (EMR), trainable mentally retarded (TMR), and specific learning disabled (SLD), were ascertained through self-report data and compared with those of 106 normal children aged 6 to 12. Similar developmental trends were found in all groups, with younger children reporting more unrealistic fears than older childr...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of focus of attention on learning dart throwing in mentally retarded children.in this quasi-experimental study, 22 mentally retarded boys (age 10-12 years old) were randomly selected according to iq (50-70) and were assigned to two homogenous attention (internal, external) groups after the pretest and a training session according to the obtain...