? When, in the early days of 1939, gXaSldren ^acuation were being made, it was felt {92X certified under Part V of the Education Act ^ should not be evacuated except as a g tQ herefore local arrangements were ma under ^ dealt with in temporary residential s tely m heir own teachers and not blllete P P 'vate families. (Subsequent expe ^ few Sfed the wisdom of this dec^ion tQ be children who were...

We evaluated a kindred with X-linked mental retardation and epilepsy. Seven affected males with mild to moderate mental retardation developed seizures (primarily generalized, tonic-clonic, and atonic) that began on average at 6.8 months of age (range, 4 to 14 months). These patients did not have a history of infantile spasms. There were no dysmorphic features. Other than mental retardation, the...

Background Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears at children under the age of 18. About 5% of the mentally retarded population is affected by severe mental retardation. Approximately 20% of the population with mental deficience presents moderate mental retardation and about 75% have mild mental retardation. A very important factor that cause mental retardation of c...

BACKGROUND No explanation for moderate to severe mental retardation is apparent in about 40% of cases. Although small chromosomal rearrangements may account for some undiagnosed cases, a lack of genome-wide screening methods has made it impossible to ascertain the frequency of such abnormalities. METHODS A fluorescence in-situ hybridisation (FISH) test was used to examine the integrity of chr...

" 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...

A PARTICULARLY useful work for the educable mentally defective boy is being done at the Besford Court Catholic Home, Worcestershire, under the administration of Monsignor Newsome. The home is intended for the high-grade "moron," who requires not only< special teaching and training, but also preliminary, concurrent and continuous hospital treatment. For such a child, as the Annual Report points ...

time, although many large Certified Institutions sent some of their highergrade patients out to work on leave of absence, and one or two Institutions had even set apart special buildings for the accommodation of such patients, there was, I believe, no other Institution run solely as a Hostel, quite independently of any parent Institution. Eagle House was started as an experiment. It draws its i...