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...

OBJECTIVE Having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have been focused over the years. Personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. Thus, the current study was conducted to estimate psychometric characteristics of "personal well-being index-adult" (PWI-A) in mothers of mentally retarded student...

We investigated the cause of mental retardation in 337 individuals seeking healthcare services at the Yokohama City Social Welfare Center for Disabilities during a period of a year and a half, from October 1987 to March 1989. The total number of participants in the study was 337 and consisted of 207 males and 130 females. Age ranged from 14 to 58 years with an average age of 22 years. IQ was ev...

During the liulf year ending January 31, 1911, there have been two groups of boys in a special class in Girard College, one group known as the "Retarded Class," the other as the "Delinquent Class." There were twenty-four boys in the Retarded Class and twenty-eight in the Delinquent Class. Retarded boys are those who have remained unduly long in a grade without promotion, the repeating having be...

PURPOSE To report the clinical features and surgical outcomes of retinal detachment in mentally retarded patients. METHODS Retrospective review of records of mentally retarded patients who had retinal reattachment surgery at the authors' institutions between February 1994 and February 2000. There were 8 patients with 13 surgically treated eyes. Demographic and clinical data were abstracted fr...