TYPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION OF ENVIRONMENT PREPARATION FOR THE SEVERELY MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS

On sterilising severely mentally handicapped people.

At the time of writing, the House of Lords in England had not ruled in the case ofJeanette-a seventeen-year-old with allegedly the skills of at most a five or six-year-old whose mother and gynaecologist wished to perform probably irreversible sterilisation by an operation to tie her fallopian tubes (1). Whatever the legal decision, the ethical issues underlying decisions of this kind deserve an...

National Assistance for Mentally Handicapped Persons

Pregnancy in a severely mentally handicapped adult.

What happens when we discover that a severely mentally handicapped girl, resident under our care, is heavily pregnant? What options are open to us in her management? What are the legal and ethical issues involved? How do we ensure that she receives the best possible care and protection and will the involvement of the police actually make the situation worse? Few of us have had the experience of...

The value of sport for the severely physically handicapped

Sir Ludwig Guttmann touches only lightly upon the enormous change that has since come about in this field. True, he experienced this change and yet did not really participate in it — because it was he who brought it into being. His optimism prevented him from accepting (as we did) the gloomy outlook for paraplegics and tetraplegics; his thorough training in neuropsychiatry and neurosurgery help...

exploring motivation and english test preparation strategies of iranian pre-university candidates during and at the end of test preparation period for konkur examination

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...