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The epidemiology of fractures among adults with severe mental retardation residing in a state developmental center

Creator:: Downs, Steve B.
Abstract:: This retrospective study investigated the incidence, characteristics, and risk factors of bone fracture among a group of 518 adults with severe mental retardation between 25 and 75 years old. Data were collected from a large state developmental center in the Western United States between April 1, 1991 and March 31,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: disease continues to be problematic for modern day researchers. It is currently estimated that one-third

A comparative study of physical disorders of educable mentally retarded children and of children of normal intelligence

Creator:: McHargue, Ruth Tarran
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the number and type of physical disorders of two hundred educable mentally retarded students and two hundred normal intelligence students. The relationship of physical disorders to sex and age was also investigated. The descriptive survey method was chosen for the study. Data...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: lhe incidence. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OI- PETYSICAL DISORDERS OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN

Grooming and clothing capabilites of twenty institutionalized mentally retarded teen-age girls

Creator:: Farnes, Carol Ann
Abstract:: Twenty mentally retarded teen-age girls living at Fairview Hospital and Training Center in Salem, Oregon, were selected to be included in this study. The purpose of the study was to attempt to determine if institutionalized mentally retarded teen-age girls are able to benefit through a class dealing with personal grooming...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Guidance Needs of Mentally Handicapped Adolescents, " Alice Lavalli and Mary Levine (1954) indicate

Problems of families with a diet-treated phenylketonuric child

Creator:: Mack, Marilyn Winnifred
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the possible problem areas in families with a diet-treated phenylketonuric child. Phenylketonuria is an inborn error of metabolism, which in the past caused mental retardation as well as behavioral disturbances. Initially the discovery of diet therapy eliminated the behavioral disturbances, but not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: disease in early infancy, and with early use of the diet therapy, both the mental retardation and the

A comparison between educable mentally retarded and normal students, using selected social and environmental variables

Creator:: Bates, Ralph Carson
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between poverty and mental retardation and to place mental retardation in its true perspective as a social condition which thrives especially in poverty areas. More specifically, this study attempted to determine if there was any significant relationship between selected social...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: given to it by Christine P. Ingram: The term 'mentally retarded' or 'mentally handicapped' is applied

What the rural social worker needs to know about mental deficiency

Creator:: Hawley, Edna Tibbits
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are devoting their lives to an understand- ing of the problems of the mentally deficient. Before

Effect of peer group presence on selected psychomotor measurements with educable mentally retarded children

Creator:: Bowman, Ruth Ann
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: measurements with educable mentally retarded children AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ruth Ann Bowman for the

The effect of trials-to-criterion on the retention of a discrete motor skill by moderately retarded and severely mentally retarded individuals

Creator:: Morehouse, James Wesley
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of trials-to-criterion on the retention of a discrete motor skill (overhand beanbag throw) by moderately mentally retarded and severely mentally retarded individuals. Nonmentally retarded individuals were involved as a control group. The subjects were grouped by degree of retardation and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: discrete motor skill by moderately retarded and severely mentally retarded individuals AN ABSTRACT OF THE

The effects of three levels of contextual interference on acquisition and retention of a sequential motor skill in moderately mentally retarded and nonretarded individuals

Creator:: Nearingburg, Patt
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of three levels of contextual interference on the acquisition and retention of a sequential motor skill, by moderately mentally retarded and nonretarded subjects. The subjects were functioning between an eight and twelve year level. The dependent measures included; Reaction Time...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: on acquisition and retention of a sequential motor skill in moderately mentally retarded and

Adjustment of the school curriculum to the needs of the mentally handicapped

Creator:: Barry, Lillyan Audrey
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: mentally handicapped AN ABSTRAC T OF THE THE SI S DEPARTMENT of of LILLYA.N AUDREY for the SCIENCE

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The epidemiology of fractures among adults with severe mental retardation residing in a state developmental center

A comparative study of physical disorders of educable mentally retarded children and of children of normal intelligence

Grooming and clothing capabilites of twenty institutionalized mentally retarded teen-age girls

Problems of families with a diet-treated phenylketonuric child

A comparison between educable mentally retarded and normal students, using selected social and environmental variables

What the rural social worker needs to know about mental deficiency

Effect of peer group presence on selected psychomotor measurements with educable mentally retarded children

The effect of trials-to-criterion on the retention of a discrete motor skill by moderately retarded and severely mentally retarded individuals

The effects of three levels of contextual interference on acquisition and retention of a sequential motor skill in moderately mentally retarded and nonretarded individuals

Adjustment of the school curriculum to the needs of the mentally handicapped

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