The magnitude of the problem of mental retardation in our country hardly needs any exaggeration. The psychological burden that these parents carry has been varied. The present study was undertaken to delineate the psychological problems of parents of mentally retarded children and to establish whether these problems were more prevalent in the parents of mentally retarded children than in the pa...

Fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of inherited mental retardation. The phenotype in this syndrome is quite variable and less conspicuous in younger patients, making clinical diagnosis difficult and thus making molecular diagnosis necessary. The use of clinical checklists in mentally retarded individuals can help selecting patients to be given priority in the molecular investigation ...

Abst rac t : A recent position taken by some mental retardation professionals poses a threat to the major gains made during the last two decades on behalf of mentally retarded persons. Their position holds that a substantial number of currently institutionalized persons are sub-trainable and should be assigned to enriched (institutional) living environments. This article refutes their ill-found...

Intestinal parasites are among problems of third world and developing countries that bring great deal of social and economic damages to society especially to closed communities which have no right attitude to hygiene and personal issues . Training centers for mentally retarded people are such communities that need more attention; hence we conducted a study to determine degree of contamination w...

the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different combinations of mental and physical practices on the acquisition and retention of a motor skill in mentally retarded male students. subjects were 40 guidance students who were healthy and novice in basketball penalty shot. they were selected randomly and were assigned to 5 homogeneous groups (4 as experimental and 1 as control) b...

The present study was designed to compare marital satisfaction in mothers with normal children and mothers with mentally retarded children and to establish the role of sexual self-esteem as a forecaster of marital satisfaction in mothers in Qaen, Iran (2014). 120 mothers were participated in this study. 60 mothers with mentally retarded children were selected through census and another 60 mothe...

abstract creating suitable classrooms that can meet the educational needs of mentally-retarded students is vitally important. the present study explores the effect of three physical characteristics of classroom environment on the creativity of educable mentally-retarded children: window view, window size, and classroom size. the participants, one hundred 9-to-11-year-old girl students, took the...