A longitudinal study of IQ and cognitive profile in 18 fra(X) positive boys is reported. At the time of diagnosis, four of the boys were mildly retarded, seven were moderately retarded, and five were severely mentally retarded. Intelligence was borderline in one child and normal in another. A decline in intellectual performance with age in the fra(X) syndrome indicated in previous studies was n...

So little has been published dealing with the education of retarded children that many j-eachers will welcome the appearance of this book, in which Miss Ingram, Supervisor of the VePartment of Child Study and Special Education, Rochester, New York, gives the results of her experience and study of the problems. She sets out in a logical fashion by describing jhe " mentally retarded " child, his ...

A new bioelectronic system for detecting and measuring voice parameters (TONAR) was used to quantify nasality in 50 educable mentally retarded children. Results indicated that over one-third of the children evaluated were hypemasal. The high prevalence of excessive nasality in EMR children was contrasted with (1) normative data on 78 nonretarded children collected with the bioelectronic system ...

This report deals with answers to a questionnaire given by 69 parents of retarded adolescents living in a community which, at the time of the study, offered little in terms of concrete services to mentally retarded persons. The inquiry concerned basically the parents' evaluation of the support they received from services or other sources and their concern about the child's future.

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...

2 studies compared intraindividual response variabilities of normals and retardates. In the 1st, involving a reaction time procedure, individual retardates were both slower and less consistent in their reactions. In the 2nd study, employing a short-term memory task, the mentally subnormal individuals were less accurate and more variable than normals. Variability of both groups increased as rete...