A Retarded Frontier

Bioprospecting: a CAM Frontier

With Volume 2 of eCAM, we begin to intensify the inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)-related natural products derived from plants and from animals (1). There will be an attempt to focus on products from animals, since we know that the literature tends to be ‘glutted’ with products derived from plants (1,2). In either case, both sources of natural products provide a veritab...

The Mentally Retarded

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...

The Mentally Retarded Patient

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...

The Mentally Retarded: a Consideration for Theory

Teaching Extremely Retarded Children

This booklet is a short, concise paper-bound report dealing with teaching techniques and procedures which have actually been used in a classroom with children who were extremely retarded. The I.Q.'s of these children ranged from 30 to 50, and their mental ages from 3 to 5 years. The reader is given clear and very simple instructions on how to give lessons in pasting, art patterns, making Easter...