The Camberwell Assessment of Need for adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (CANDID) is a widely used tool for the assessment of health and social needs of people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems. It uses the assessment approach adopted…
In 1912, Henry Goddard sighted the Kallikak family as proof of his theory that mental retardation was hereditary. J. David Smith examines Goddard's evidence and looks at how Goddard's theory has shaped government policies.
This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the significance of mental, sensory and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about h…
The teacher program of Special Education at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia has been in operation for 16 years, but little information exists regarding the program's effectiveness. This study examined perceptions of current teachers of children with mental retardation regar…
This study makes an assessment of the needs of the Bangladeshi families living in New York City, with mentally retarded (MR) relatives, and gathers information about the services currently available for them. Recently there has been a significant increase of Bangladeshi people i…
The purpose of this study was to determine and describe the relationships between child characteristics (age, gender, birth order, level of severity, level of rehabilitation, and type of retardation) and family coping patterns, family characteristics (mother's age, maternal age …
This study examined the Ethiopian immigrant mothers’ experiences and perception of raising a child with mild mental retardation and/or emotional disturbance. It also, investigated the association between Israeli Ethiopian mothers’ ethnic identity, their perception of their child…
This study is aimed at specifying the cognitive components for addition operations (encoding, speed of executing the operation, operation selection, and strategy choice) to determine if they are responsible for the difficulties that students with learning disabilities and mild m…
This study examined the perceptions of male and female administrators and special education teachers in Saudi Arabia regarding the use of Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) in relation to its effectiveness and practicality for students with mental retardation. A four-part surv…
In this study, 121 participants with varying educational levels, religious beliefs, and social backgrounds from the Idoma ethnic group of Benue State in Nigeria provided information on the relationship between their membership in African Traditional and Christian religions and t…
