The purpose of the present study was to examine self-reported fears and related anxieties in children and adolescents (7-18 years of age) having learning disabilities (LD) or mild mental retardation (MIMR), and whether these fears and related anxieties differ based on gender and age. Students responded to two well validated instruments, The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised and Revised ...

Aim To compare the frequency of mental retardation with other psychiatric disorders at the Institute for Mentally Disabled Persons "Drin" Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to asses psychosocial condition and necessary support to persons with mental retardation. Methods In this retrospective, descriptive and epidemiologic study neuropsychiatric findings and reports of the Institute's social servi...

This paper reports estimates of the prevalence of mental retardation and associated factors based on a population survey of 2- to 9-year-old children in Greater Karachi, Pakistan. A two-phase survey was implemented during the years 1988-1989. In the first phase, a cluster sample of 6,365 children (5,748 from urban areas and 617 from rural areas) was screened for disabilities using a parental re...

We report data on a group of 37 VCFS patients with specific reference to their intelligence, behaviour, and social competence. Fifty five percent of the children had a borderline to normal IQ. Mental retardation (defined as IQ < 70 or > -2 SD below the mean) was found in 45%. In the majority, the mental retardation was mild (38%) and only two patients had moderate mental retardation. Severe men...

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...

this is a discriptive study with the main goal to identify personal, pregnancy and delivery characteristics of mothers given birth to mentally retarded child. this study has been conducted in the rehabilitation center in tehran in 1994. a total of 150 women took part in this research, and the tool of was a check list which was completed by researcher through interview. the findings were illustr...

materials and methods a number of 100 patients with imr, normal karyotypes and negative fragile-x and metabolic tests were screened for subtelomeric abnormalities using mlpa technique. results nine of 100 patients showed subtelomeric abnormalities with at least one of the two mlpa kits. deletion in a single region was found in 3 patients, and in two different subtelomeric regions in 1 patient. ...

Kabuki syndrome (KS, Niikawa-Kuroki syndrome, MIM:147920) is a rare multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation syndrome described simultaneously by Niikawa et al, 1988 and Kuroki et al, 1981. The estimated frequency of this syndrome is about 1/32 000 in Japan. KS is characterized by postnatal growth retardation, distinctive facial features, dermatoglyphic anomalies, skeletal dysplasia, and ...

Mental retardation is one of the most important among the developmental disorders which can neither be called a diseases not a syndrome. It refers to a significantly sub average mental intellectual functioning resulting or associated with concurrent impairment in adaptive behavior which are manifested during different developmental stages. The presentation of mental retardation varies broadly s...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of mental retardation by gender, age of diagnosis, and location in Zonguldak, Turkey. METHODS The data of 1909 mentally retarded children recorded between 1995 and 2003 was obtained from the Learning Disability Guidance and Research Centre. Age, gender, IQ scores, the age of diagnosis, and living areas of cases were evaluated. RESULTS The distribution of...