DOC UME NT RES UME EC 042 066 Gottlieb, Jay; Budoff, Milton Attitudes Toward School by Segregated and Integrated Retarded Children: A Study and Experimental Validation. Volume 2, Number 35. Research Inst. for Educational Problems, Cambridge, Mass. Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, D.C. BR-8-0506 72 OEG-0-8-080506-4597 (607) 12p. MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Educable Mentally ...

Schizophrenia is one of the most incapacitating forms of mental disorder that runs a chronic and relapsing course. It typically starts in adolescence or early adulthood and can be life-long. It is more common in people with learning disabilities than in the general population. Its prodromal features include depression, anxiety, suspiciousness, social isolation and bizarre behaviour. It may resu...

a suitable unit staffed with a multidisciplinary team. When the assessment is completed, the patient can be properly placed back in his family or in day or residential care in the community or in hospital. Sometimes all of these placements can be utilized in the same case to provide proper care, training, treatment and rehabilitation of an individual patient, e.g. the patient lives with his fam...

The recent trend toward integrating mentally retarded children in the community and public school warrants examination of public attitudes toward these children. Factor analysis of equestionnaire responses of 430 adults revealed for factors underlying attitudes toward retarded children: positive stereotype, segregation in the community, segregation in the classroom, and perceived physical and i...

A longitudinal study of IQ and cognitive profile in 18 fra(X) positive boys is reported. At the time of diagnosis, four of the boys were mildly retarded, seven were moderately retarded, and five were severely mentally retarded. Intelligence was borderline in one child and normal in another. A decline in intellectual performance with age in the fra(X) syndrome indicated in previous studies was n...