This study compared physical education (PE) and recess in two markedly different special schools for children with mild intellectual disabilities; one school had a reputation for focusing on sports (High Sport Focus-HSF) and the other did not (Low Sport Focus-LSF). Data were collected in 24 PE classes and 48 recess periods using a validated observation system. During both PE and recess, HSF stu...

The place of Physical Education in the general education of mentally deficient children, has yet to be fully recognised. The normal child, given average health and opportunity, will develop the necessary ability for the simple skills without special training; he will have enough spring to jump off and on a bus, enough balance and coordination to climb over a high fence, or to stand on one leg t...

Prevalence of underweight and obesity were investigated in 282 mentally retarded persons living on the West Coast of Norway. Data collected in this survey suggest that people with severe mental retardation were more likely to be underweight and people with mild mental retardation were more likely to be obese. Compared to persons of average intellectual levels, persons with mental retardation we...

Relations among externalizing behavior, therapeutic context (community care vs. residential care), and social problem-solving by children with mild intellectual disabilities or borderline intelligence were examined. Participants were 186 children (12 to 14 years of age) who responded to a video-based social problem-solving task. Of these, 130 received residential care and the majority suffered ...

Reading therapy has been shown to be effective in treating reading disabilities (RD) in dyslexic children, but little is known of its use in subjects with mild mental retardation (MR). Twenty adult volunteers, with both RD and mild MR, underwent 60 consecutive weeks in a cognitive remediation program, and were compared with 32 untreated control subjects. The experimental group showed a signific...

Sixty-two inmates of a children's home were examined by using a symptom check list and Hindi adaptation of Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale-Form LM (1960). A high proportion (69.4%) of the inmates had one or other psychiatric problem. Mild mental retardation (I. Q. 50-70) was most common (40.3%), 11.3% were diagnosed as having unsocialized disturbance of conduct. Four most common psychiatric s...

Research has found that when people with intellectual disabilities are moved from institutions into smaller community-based services, positive outcomes have been recorded have not been inevitable. It is now recognised that mere placement in the community is not always sufficient (Jahoda, Markova and Cattermole, 1990). Individual characteristics of clients and the nature of services received in ...

The aim of this study was to examine the intervention effect of repeated retrieval with touching the area of selfbody on the performance of human figure drawing in preschool children with mild intellectual disabilities. Especially, this study applied the retrieval practice task to improve the performance of drawing in preschool children. In the intervention group, firstly, children with/without...

Previous studies have shown that people with mild intellectual disabilities have difficulty in 'weighing-up' information, defined as integrating information from two different sources for the purpose of reaching a decision. This was demonstrated in two very different procedures, temporal discounting and a scenario-based financial decision-making task. In the present study, both tasks were prese...