fryns-aftimos syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by craniofacial signs, anterior neuronal migration disorder (pachygyria, lissencephaly), skeletal deformities and mental retardation. we describe a five-year-old boy with abnormal facial features (hypertelorism, ptosis, high arched palate), skeletal problems (short stature, short fingers, flat feet) and mild intellectual...

Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare chromosomal disorder caused by terminal deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4. The clinical picture includes growth retardation, severe mental retardation, characteristic “Greek helmet” like face, seizures and midline defects in the brain, heart, palate and genitalia. Recently-used molecular techniques increase the number of diagnosed cases due to th...

Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare chromosomal disorder caused by terminal deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4. The clinical picture includes growth retardation, severe mental retardation, characteristic "Greek helmet" like face, seizures and midline defects in the brain, heart, palate and genitalia. Recently-used molecular techniques increase the number of diagnosed cases due to th...

(we.ht the circumstances of their study. y*al nomenclature in England underIvji1 a change with the passing of the ntal Health Act, 1959. This not only changed "mental deficiency" into "mental subnormality" and did away with the terms "idiot", "imbecile" and "feeble-minded" (roughly replacing the first two by the severely subnormal and the last by the subnormal), but it "cured" those previously ...

Sixty-two inmates of a children's home were examined by using a symptom check list and Hindi adaptation of Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale-Form LM (1960). A high proportion (69.4%) of the inmates had one or other psychiatric problem. Mild mental retardation (I. Q. 50-70) was most common (40.3%), 11.3% were diagnosed as having unsocialized disturbance of conduct. Four most common psychiatric s...

The aim of this study was to examine the intervention effect of repeated retrieval with touching the area of selfbody on the performance of human figure drawing in preschool children with mild intellectual disabilities. Especially, this study applied the retrieval practice task to improve the performance of drawing in preschool children. In the intervention group, firstly, children with/without...