OBJECTIVE To study the frequency of chromosomal abnormalities in severely mentally retarded Iraqi patients. Secondly, to determine the types of chromosomal abnormalities that play a major role in the causation of mental retardation and to compare our results with those reported elsewhere. METHODS Twenty-one patients with severe mental retardation were subject to chromosomal analysis. The lymp...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, depression is one of the most prevalent mental diseases to which some individuals like mothers of mentally retarded children are more vulnerable due to their (children's) special condition. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the level of depression and its related factors in these mothers. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 12...

A Study of the Relative Importance of Training on the Employability of the Mentally Retarded as Rated by Employers and Educators in Cache Co unty, Utah by John F. Hurst , Master of Science Utah State Un iversity, 197 2 Major Professor: Dr. Devoe c. Rickert Department: Special Education Relative differences in attitudes between educators and employers concerning training of the mentally retarded...

not categorically prohibited by the Eighth Amendment). 2. See Lyn Entzeroth, Putting the Mentally Retarded Criminal Defendant to Death: Charting the Development of a National Consensus to Exempt the Mentally Retarded from the Death Penalty, 52 ALA. L. REV. 911 (2001); EMILY FABRYCK REED, THE PENRY PENALTY: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND OFFENDERS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION 14 (1993). 3. Atkins v. Virginia...

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...

Intelligence levels and intelligence profiles were investigated in 52 members of a large family with the fragile X syndrome. The mental abilities were evaluated by the three Wechsler intelligence tests (WAIS, WISC-R, and WPPSI). Chromosomal and psychological data were then compared. In 22 non-retarded fra(X) negative family members, a mean IQ of 102 was found (males 97, females 106). Eleven non...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the maturity levels of the individual by comparing the correlation between dental, skeletal and the chronological ages. MATERIALS AND METHODS Intraoral periapical radiographs of the complete right side of the dentition and posteroanterior radiographs of the hand and wrist were obtained from 260 subjects, ranged from 3 to 15 years of age. Evaluation of...