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Mental retardation, mental age, and learning rate.
Zigler's hypothesis that mental age (MA) and not IQ determines the rate of learning is examined in the light of empirical evidence comparing the learning rates of normal and retarded children and young adults matched for MA. The results show that learning rate is a function of IQ as well as of MA. In general, children of average IQ learned serial and paired-associate lists significantly faster ...
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Mental retardation is significantly sub average intellectual functioning present from birth or early infancy, causing limitations in the ability to conduct normal activities of daily living. Level of mental retardation, maternal age, family history of mental retardation and consanguinity associated disorder was recorded from data given by parents or center of rehabilitation. Forty seven percent...
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A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...
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To the Congress of the United States: It is my intention to send shortly to the Congress a message pertaining to this Nation's most urgent needs in the area of health improvement. But two health problems—because they are of such critical size and tragic impact, and because their susceptibility to public action is so much greater than the attention they have received-are deserving of a wholly ne...
متن کاملA survey of patients with mental retardation of unknown origin
Introduction: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is one of the most prevalent genetic causes of developmental disability, representing the most frequent form of inherited severe cognitive deficit. The present study was undertaken to investigate FXS and its prevalence in moderate mentally retarded people in patients. Materials and methods: Nineteen people with moderate mental retardation (MR) who wer...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.73.9.1094