OBJECTIVE To report experience with the treatment of complications of vinyl glove ingestion in mentally retarded patients with pica. DESIGN A retrospective case series. SETTING Two university-affiliated hospitals. PATIENTS Five mentally retarded patients, 4 with a history of pica, who were admitted for the management of complications resulting from the ingestion of vinyl gloves. MAIN OU...

Grandparents acknowledge several benefits when raising their grandchildren. These include a sense of purpose, a second chance in life, an opportunity to nurture family relationships, a chance to continue family histories, and receiving love and companionship. Grandparents also benefit from giving and receiving love, and perceiving themselves as more effective caregiver. An attempt was made to c...

A total of 217 mentally retarded people in auxiliary schools and sunshine homes took the action test implemented by self-developed testing tools. The results of statistical treatment indicates as follows: there is no significant difference in projects featuring imitation between the moderate or severe and the mild mentally retarded people; The relationship between intelligence quotient (IQ) and...

ôbjective: having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have been focused over the years. personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. thus, the current study was conducted to estimate psychometric characteristics of “personal well-being index-adult” (pwï-â) in mothers of mentally retarded studen...

one of the most difficult and the most common behavioral problems in people with mental retardation, from mild to severe, that adversely affect interpersonal behavior and unpleasant effect on people's moods and mental self. social skills is a process that individuals understand and predict the behavior of others and also control their behavior and regulate social interactions.quasi-experimental...

The crucial factor involved in habilitating the mentally retarded, or other individuals, for produc­ tive employment is not, as is often erroneously as­ sumed, the decision concerning the vocation that the client may succeed in, but the position that is taken concerning this unique person. In this re­ gard, an analysis of the habilitation process indicates that at each decision-making point a p...