the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of traditional - local games on the development of gross motor skills of children with educable mental retardation. 30 educable mentally retarded children in welfare organization of marivan city (mea age 12.8 ±1.12 yr and iq 33.61±7.81) were studied with purposive sampling method. all children were pretested; then, samples were randomly divide...

introduction: epilepsy is the most serious and prevalent neural disorder during childhood which its pervalance is increasing. the combination of epilepsy and mental ratardation leads to a considerable challenge and an economic load on the health system. the aim of this cross – sectional study was to identify the prevalence and monitoring of epilepsy among  6 to 21 years old mentally retarded st...

background entamoeba histolytica/entamoeba dispar and enterobius vermicularis are the major health problems in the developing countries especially in iran. the prevalence of infection is variable among different social groups in the world. objectives since elderly and mentally retarded are high risk group, the present survey was carried out in order to determine the prevalence of intestinal par...

Three cases associating multiple congenital anomalies with a small extra metacentric chromosome have been reported by Fr0land, Holst, and Terelev (I963), Gustavson, Atkins, and Patricks (I964), and Taft, Dodge, and Atkins (I965). All three occurred in boys. Because this occurred in male patients only, the possibility that this extra small chromosome was associated with the X chromosome could no...

A dicentric autosome, tdic(8:22)(p23:p13), was found in all metaphase cells examined from the peripheral blood of a mentally retarded girl. It is suggested that the centromere of chromosome 22 was inactive, allowing the dicentric to behave as a monocentric element. The involvement of acrocentric chromosomes in the stable dicentric autosomes of man is discussed.