No one doubts that serious intellectual or physical defect handicaps the sufferer in his task of earning a living, just as no one doubts that high intellectual and physical gifts are an advantage. There are, however, examples of people who are lacking neither an adequate intellectual nor physical equipment, but who are nevertheless handicapped. The handicap is due to some inadequacy of function...

" In my report last year, I discussed somewhat fully both the principles and methods of dealing with children who are mentally retarded or feeble-minded. It was shown that for practical purposes they fall into three groups:?(a) those who are dull (mental impairment) or backward (their normal development hindered by untoward circumstances); (b) the mentally defective who are in some measure educ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the percentage of children with mental health diagnoses and utilization and expenditures of mental health services among children in foster care compared with other children receiving Medicaid, including those with disabilities. DESIGN Analysis of Medicaid claim and eligibility records in southwestern Pennsylvania for fiscal year 1995. POPULATION A total of 39,500 chi...

298 institutionalised mentally retarded patients in Institute of Mental Health, Madras were studied for the aetiological factors, levels of intelligence, associated disorders and family structure and compared with 163 matched group of mentally retarded attending the outpatient services of the Institute of Mental Health. In 41% of the institutionalised the cause was unknown, 29.3% had infective ...

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are three to four times less often employed compared to their non-disabled peers. Evidence for factors associated with work participation of young adults with ID is limited. Furthermore, studies on predictors for sustainable work participation among young adults with ID is lacking altogether. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whi...

We have entered a new world of retirement income security in America, with older individuals more exposed to market risk and more vulnerable to financial insecurity than prior generations. This reflects an evolution that has altered the historical vision of a financially secure retirement supported by Social Security, a defined-benefit pension plan, and individual savings. Today, 2 of these 3 r...

will be made for occupational therapists to give more attention to recent developments in the literature, policies and legislation in order to develop services that will best promote the participation of people with disability in work. Recommendations for service models will be made, each based on a case study that was developed using an interpretive biography research design.

Those who have comorbid conditions see themselves as much more disabled than those with a single substance use or psychiatric disorder; hence their over-representation in health services. However, as the preceding chapters have illustrated, they are usually in treatment for a single disorder, and the services are not enabled to tackle comorbidity. A frequent message throughout has been that com...

Contemporary disability law takes into account the insight that physical and mental conditions need not be disabling but for the environmental and attitudinal barriers that keep people with disabilities from social participation on a plane of equality with others. The need to use a wheelchair does not disable except for curbs and stairs, and many mental conditions do not disable except for soci...

Introduction: Mothers who have children with mental and physical disabilities experience mental and social challenges. Recent researches indicate that Psychological status and marital satisfaction in mothers of children with mental retardation and mothers of children with physical disabilities is different. The aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction and psychological characterist...