A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine.

It was my good fortune to be the guest of Dr. F. Douglas lurner and t e Royal Medico-Psychological Association on the occasion of the 1933 anni^a meeting of that Association at Clacton-on-Sea. This afforded an opportunity for meeting the leaders in the field of mental deficiency in England with w ose work I had heretofore been familiar only at a distance. It also mac*e , e brief visits to a few...

Behavior categories for observations of 304 mentally disabled adults were analyzed in relation to settings (sheltered workshops and residential facility), personal characteristics (age, sex, IQ, diagnosis, and desire for affiliation) and characteristics of partners. Both settings and personal characteristics predicted individual behavior rates for the 10 most frequently observed behavior catego...

OBJECTIVE Disabled people have the same right as other people to receive the health care they need, but they sometimes have difficulties to achieve it. In Castilla y Leon it has come into effect a law to guarantee Primary and Secondary Care coordination to provide dental treatment under sedation or anaesthesia to mentally disabled people who need it. Our aim is to evaluate the results of the im...

Most of the points that apply to dysphasic patients can usefully be remembered when dealing with the mentally handicapped, especially the following. (1) Use simple sentences, but do not "talk down." (2) Put instructions in writing; there will usually be someone in the patient's environment who can read. (3) Both truculence and shyness are often due to being in an unfamiliar environment, so putt...

Sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals occurs today despite little consensus in the medical community as to when sterilization is appropriate (Zurawin & Paransky, 2003). In addition, each state has different laws regarding sterilization of the mentally handicapped. Thus, nurses and nurse practitioners must navigate the complex social issues and legal uncertainties related to steriliz...

This article draws upon an extensive case management literature in order to integrate a number of key concepts and findings that must be considered by those responsible for the planning, administration, and provision of effective community care to the chronically mentally disabled. A discussion of the reasons for the current popularity of the case management concept within human services is fol...

The visual acuity of twelve multi-handicapped, mentally retarded subjects, diagnosed as deaf-blind, was measured on two occasions with the Teller Acuity Cards (TAC). Eight subjects scored above the criterion for legally blind and the results of six of these indicated various degrees of poor to approaching-normal eyesight. To evaluate high-level vision four subjects were tested with the Fagan Te...

The main purposes of the present analysis were to describe the causes of intellectual disability (ID) and examine its overtime change from 2000 to 2007 in Taiwan. Data of the present study mainly come from the public web-access information which collected by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interiors, Taipei, Taiwan. Data were obtained from two ways of 2000-2007 national data: (1) ...

AUTHOR Glali3, Sister Mary Paulette TITLE The 'Thfluence of Typewriting on Selected Lanauage Arts qkills and Mot-or Development of the Flucable Mentally Handicapped, Volure T. Final Fepect. INSTITUTION North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. SPONS AGENCY Pureaq of Education for the Panlicapped (DH'W/Ct)t Washington, P.C. BUPEA9 N9 PP-44-2199 PUB DATE Aua 7() GRANT 0EG-0-70-1220(60') NOTE 12p.: Doctora...