Twenty-nine patients with Apert's syndrome were ascertained through hospital records. The mean age was 19.3 years (range eight to 35 years). Further information was obtained on their intelligence, education, and employment records. Fourteen patients (48%) had a normal or borderline IQ (greater than 70), nine patients (31%) were mildly mentally retarded (IQ 50 to 70), four patients (14%) were mo...

objective: having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans, and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have become important over the years. personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. thus, the current study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of the ‘‘personal well-being index- cognitive disability’’ on mentally retarded ...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of eight weeks corrective games on kyphosis angle and postural control in kyphotic mentally retarded children. method: thirty mentally retarded girls children with increase normal thoracic kyphosis (kyphosis angle≥40) were selected and randomly divided in two groups training group (n=15 with mean average 12/06±2/8 years old, height 145±1/33cm,...

A novel programme of intervention - brief inpatient family intervention - was formulated to impart the training skills to the parents of mentally retarded children to optimise the development of their retarded child. During the period of this study. 106 mentally retarded children with different socio-demographic backgrounds and degrees of handicap participated in this programme, with encouragin...

Recent literature confirms the effects of motor activities on the formation and reinforcement of movements in the first years of life among mentally retarded children. It is proposed that there is a relationship between formation of movements and improvements in motor-perceptual capabilities and academic achievement. These lead us to the idea that the phenomenon of perception, the role played b...

We evaluated the presence or absence of informative morphogenetic variants in cases with mental retardation compared with mentally healthy subjects. Cases diagnosed with mental retardation were matched by age and sex with control subjects and examined for the presence of informative morphogenetic variants. The aim of the study was to investigate their prevalence and mean number in these subject...