Grandparents acknowledge several benefits when raising their grandchildren. These include a sense of purpose, a second chance in life, an opportunity to nurture family relationships, a chance to continue family histories, and receiving love and companionship. Grandparents also benefit from giving and receiving love, and perceiving themselves as more effective caregiver. An attempt was made to c...

Scurvy was the first vitamin deficiency disease to be described. However it is seldom seen in the pediatric age group. It is often missed, especially amongst physically and mentally disabled patients who form a high risk group for this disease. Scurvy can present with a varied spectrum of signs and symptoms. Here we present a case of scurvy in a child with cerebral

Dear Sir,?The editorial in the spring issue of this Journal stressed the need for provision of more lr*stitutions for defectives. Without in the least minimizing this need, I want to point out that the strain on institutions could be greatly relieved if more and better day centres could be provided for children classed as " ineducable A number of occupation centres have been set UP during the l...

The accuracy and stability of self-image of 21 mentally retarded adults and 24 nonretarded adults were studied. The subjects were confronted with a distorting mirror that made their faces look either fatter or slimmer. Results showed that retarded adults saw themselves as more distorted than did non-retarded adults. Significant sex differences in the retarded population were found. Both the pre...

Retarded children show marked susceptibility to learned helplessness. Three experiments illustrate how adults may foster this helplessness. In Experiment 1, college students reported causal attributions for failure and expectancies of future success for either "a 6-year-old child" or "a 9-year-old mentally retarded child with a mental age of 6 years." In Experiment 2, students reported attribut...

The prevalence of minor physical anomalies was examined in a sample of 109 children with idiopathic mental retardation (65 boys and 44 girls). Control group consisted of 246 healthy schoolchildren (123 boys and 123 girls) aged 8 to 12 years. A comparison was made between number of found minor anomalies per child (W1) and their Waldrop weight scores (W2) in healthy and mentally retarded (MR) chi...

" 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...

Perhaps I can best introduce this discussion of the dynamics of mental retardation with some personal reminiscences. It is now 28 years ago that I first began to work in an institution for the mentally retarded, at Letchworth Village in New York, at that time one of the most distinguished of the institutions for the retarded in the U.S.A. — distinguished particularly because it had a large and ...

The study was carried out in 25 mentally retarded children and compared with equal number of normal children. They were subjected to detailed psychiatric evaluation and dental examination. The dental anomalies were corroborated with cephalometric analysis of lateral cephalograms. It was concluded that all mentally retarded children had some dental abnormality in them in form of dental malocclus...