Proceedings from National Workshop on Teaching Nutrition to Professionals of Various Disciplines at University-Affiliated Centers for the Care of Mentally Retarded and Handicapped Children

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
National Workshop

Creative Opportunities for the Retarded Child (Six illustrated booklets containing advice and practical information about arts and handicrafts for the parents, nurse, social volunteer or vocational worker who has daily contact with a handicapped child), by H. Cornelia Hollander, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971, $10.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 937-938
Author(s):  
Jean K. MacCubrey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Retarded Child ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Daily Contact ◽  
Practical Information ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

In six illustrated booklets Cornelia Hollander has set forth a rationale and directions for an arts and crafts program for handicapped children. The first booklet describes how a group of parents and teachers of mentally retarded children organized a workshop to teach "uncreative adults" skills that they in turn could teach their handicapped children." The succeeding booklets deal, respectively, with finger painting and simple print making, drawing and painting, clay and other dimensional media, stitchery, and woodworking and odds and ends.

Group Time-Out from Rock and Roll Music and Out-of-Seat Behavior of Handicapped Children While Riding a School Bus

1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 967-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Ritschl ◽  
John Mongrella ◽  
Robert J. Presbie
Keyword(s):  
Marked Reduction ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
School Buses ◽  
Time Out ◽  
Group Time ◽  
Closed Environment

Out-of-seat behavior, a universal and potentially dangerous problem among children while riding school buses, was reduced under a group timeout procedure from rock and roll music. Ss were 6- to 15-yr.-old children from mentally retarded-educable classes. Their classroom teachers acted as observers, recorders, and implementers of the contingencies. Music was played while the bus was moving, as long as all children were sitting in their bus seats and shut-off for 5 sec. for each out-of-seat observed. Reversals to baseline were introduced to assess the effects of the music and group time-out. A marked reduction of out-of-seats occurred with each introduction of the music and group time-out contingency. The results demonstrated the applicability of reinforcement procedures in modifying these behaviors in a moving environment and were consistent with research on reinforcement procedures in modifying out-of-seat behaviors in the closed environment of the classroom.

Impedance and Otoscopy Screening of Multiply Handicapped Children in School

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet M. Bruns ◽  
Janis T. Cram ◽  
Gayle J. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ear ◽  
School Children ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Impedance Audiometry ◽  
School Population ◽  
Physically Handicapped

Seventy-nine physically handicapped, mentally retarded school children were screened with impedance audiometry, followed by otoscopy performed by an otolaryngologist. These procedures provide a method for the identification of possible communicatively handicapping middle-ear abnormalities in a difficult-to-test school population. Results indicated that the presence of middle-ear abnormalities increased as the degree of retardation increased and age decreased. Furthermore, as the degree of physical involvement increased, the presence of suspected middle-ear pathology increased.

Brief Report: Basic Counting Principles Used by Mentally Retarded Children

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Baroody
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Stable Order ◽  
Mental Age ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

Evidence of basic counting principles has been found in retarded children (Gelman, 1982), including those who are moderately handicapped (Baroody & Snyder, 1983). However, Gelman found no evidence of a stable-order or a cardinality principle in mentally handicapped children with a mental age (MA) of less than 4½ years. The current study examined retarded children in the same MA category to (a) evaluate the hypothesis of a critical MA for learning basic counting principles and (b) further examine how an understanding of counting develops.

The Mentally Retarded Child at Home

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-105
Author(s):  
ROBERT B. KUGEL
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Retarded Child ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Wide Experience ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
At Home

Mrs. Dittman skillfully utilizes her wide experience as a specialist in child development to bring together in this small booklet information which doubtless will be of inestimable value to parents as they attempt to cope with the varied and complex problems of day-to-day-living which their mentally retarded children present. It is written in a style suited for a wide variety of people and stands as an excellent companion-piece with other Children's Bureau publications pertaining to child care. Nowhere in the booklet is there any maudlin sentimentality or crass indifference, so often seen material written about handicapped children. Quite the contrary, the style is one of sympathetic understanding where every effort has been made to present the problem of home care in an honest, forthright manner.

Physical and Psychosocial Benefits of Modified Judo Practice for Blind, Mentally Retarded Children: A Pilot Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 915-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge M. Gleser ◽  
Meir Nyska ◽  
Shlomo Porat ◽  
Joseph Y. Margulies ◽  
Hava Mendelberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Psychosocial Benefits

A modified form of judo training was practiced by a class of 7 blind, mentally retarded children with associated neuropsychiatric disturbances. The biweekly training program lasted for 6 months. Analysis indicated improvements in physical fitness, motor skills, and psychosocial attitude. The authors concluded that a modified form of judo can be used as a therapeutic, educational, and recreational tool for multiply handicapped children.

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