Maternal sensitivity in mothers with mild intellectual disabilities is related to experiences of maltreatment and predictive of child attachment: A matched-comparison study Lene Lindberg, Mari Fransson, Tommie Forslund, Lydia Springer, and Pehr Granqvist. Author note Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Upp...

I find this to be a stimulating, if not an important piece of work, and propose to give it a fairly exhaustive review. It is concerned, as the title states, with the range of human capacities. " When we compare the mathematical ability of an Einstein, or the scientific intuition of a Pasteur or the poetic gifts of a Shakespeare, with the correlative abilities of average men, let alone those of ...

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...

Progress in humanity is stimulated by individuals, however much organised society takes over the responsibility afterwards. In this respect Harold Nelson Burden was a powerful individual in establishing in this country the official acceptance of responsibilty for the care of mental defectives. He was a member of the 1904 Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the feeble-minded, and out of ...

The more one has to deal with the great problem of mental defect and its problems the less anxious one is to say anything at all. One always feels that the really helpful speakers at Mental Deficiency Conferences have been brought there under the persuasion of a revolver. The reason is because people who are doing things or trying to do things are apt to be very diffident and reticent until the...

In the comparatively rapid advancement made in recent years in that branch of Social Psychiatry known as the study of the Feeble-minded and of its subsidiary, the study of the Defective Delinquent, a most important and significant development has been the increased attention directed to the observation of the quality of mentality which we call character in contrast with the degree of mentality ...

OBJECTIVES There are few Canadian prevalence studies of mental retardation (MR); those that do exist were conducted prior to the era of community integration. We undertook a population-based study to explore mental health disturbances in young persons with MR. The first requirement was to identify a population with MR and to establish its prevalence. Here, we report data on the prevalence of MR...

One hundred and sixty six children attending educationally subnormal/mild (ESN/M) schools were karyotyped as part of a project investigating the aetiology of mild mental retardation. Nine had significant chromosome abnormalities. Five of six children identified during the survey had no dysmorphic features--47,XXY (two), 48,XXYY, 46,XX 15q-, and 46,XX,t(X;19). One dysmorphic boy had a balanced t...