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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"mental retardation"”.
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Tetrahydrobiopterin Metabolism in Mental Retardation
Optimal ‘conditions for the separation and detection of pteridines by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) were obtained. The retention time, reproducibility relative fluorescence and minimal detection limits of various pterins under fixed conditions was noted. The stability of pterins …
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Attorneys' perceptions of child witnesses with mental retardation
Children with mental retardation are more likely to be abused than the general population, yet are often denied access to the justice system. Research on children without mental retardation has revealed skepticism as to their reliability as witnesses in the court of law. Even more so, children with …
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Mental retardation and parental occupation: an explorative epidemiologic study
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Teaching Mental Abacus Calculation to Students With Mental Retardation
Students using the curriculum that included mental abacus training performed better on number concepts, computation, and some application and problem solving skills than those who were taught using a conventional math curriculum. No significant differences were found in students' measuring …
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Community Knowledge of Mental Retardation and Attitudes Toward the Retarded
… in order to determine the general knowledge of mental retardation and the attitudes toward the retarded.
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Evaluation of Gait and Slip Characteristics for Adults with Mental Retardation
Adults with mental retardation (MR) experience a greater number of falls than their non-disabled peers. To date, efforts to understand the causes for these falls have primarily involved qualitative studies that use largely subjective measures to quantify stability. Performing a more objective …
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Wording formats and biases in interview responses by adults with mental retardation
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Assessing the satisfaction of adults with mental retardation living in the community
The present research indicates that the MLSS is a reliable and valid scale to measure personal satisfaction through the responses of the consumers of services in areas of community, friendships, recreation, and job.
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Role taking ability and social interaction competence in mental retardation and autism
… has been examined in many ways including developmental studies with normal subjects and studies which demonstrated role taking deficits in a variety of special populations. Recent data suggest that individuals with autism also show such deficits when compared to nonautistic mentally retarded …
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Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Induces Synapse Loss Through Acute Postsynaptic Translational Regulation
… (FXS) is the most common form of inherited mental retardation. The root cause of FXS is loss of the function of a single protein: the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP). FMRP is an RNA-binding protein that plays a complex role in translational regulation. FMRP may be an important …
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A single subject study on major depressive disorder, PTSD, and mild mental retardation
… Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Mild Mental Retardation. A client from a community-based agency was used in the study. The client was an African American woman who resided in a low socioeconomic area and whose income was below the poverty line. The client experienced emotional, …
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Development of Procedures for the Driver Training of Individuals With Moderate Mental Retardation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004314.pdf: 3508696 bytes, checksum: 67b984ca09aec1201202ef2d175bdcea (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Leisure involvement and the subjective well-being of young adults with mental retardation
… an analysis of interviews of young adults with mental retardation (N = 87) to examine an hypothesized path model of direct and indirect associations between socially- and competence-oriented leisure involvement and subjective well-being. The indirect associations were hypothesized influences of …
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An Exploration Into the Child Welfare Experience of Parents With Mental Retardation in Illinois
… of this study was to determine how parents with mental retardation living within a sixteen-county area of Central Illinois are perceived by child welfare caseworkers, the availability of specialized services designed to address the unique learning needs of this population, and the relationship …
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African-American males with mental retardation: Friendship formation and maintenance in community-based employment
… African-American males with mild-to-moderate mental retardation. How these relationships appear to have been formed and how they are maintained are the main topics under discussion. The literature review addresses friendship formation and maintenance in the general society, for individuals …
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