{"title":"Communication of the diagnosis of Down's syndrome and spina bifida in Scotland 1971-1981.","authors":"J C Murdoch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A questionnaire completed by the mothers of 123 children with Down's syndrome and 109 children with Spina bifida, born over the past 10 years in Scotland has noted a marked improvement in the time of telling mothers of the diagnosis of Down's syndrome, 88% being told within a week of the birth. Only just over half of the mothers felt that the person telling them made a good job of the task, and most were told without their husband being present. Although both parents knew nothing about the particular handicap, one third of the Down's mothers and over a half of the mothers of Spina bifida children were given no further opportunity to ask more about the child or their feelings. This poor opinion of mothers on the ability of health professionals to tell them of their handicapped children indicates a need to incorporate special teaching on such situations in medical and nursing training, and to agree simple protocols within newborn units, so that such tragedies may be avoided.</p>","PeriodicalId":76014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of mental deficiency research","volume":"27 (Pt 4) ","pages":"247-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17292411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attraction to \"good form\" in Down's syndrome.","authors":"B Stratford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seventy-five children were examined in tasks involving matching figures in order to establish whether there exists a specific attraction to symmetrical or Gestalt type \"good form\" displays in mentally handicapped children and particularly in Down's Syndrome or if the tendency was towards image reversal. Twenty-five children with Down's Syndrome were matched on M.A. with twenty-five non-Down's Syndrome subnormals and twenty-five normal children. Symmetrical and asymmetrical displays were presented to the groups for reproduction and reproduction from memory. The results supported the hypothesis that mentally handicapped children have a significant attraction to symmetrical arrangements and that Down's Syndrome children are more significantly attracted than other handicapped children. Evidence is presented to show that what often is mistaken for a tendency to image reversal is in fact an attraction to \"monotonicity\" and is more related to \"good form\" than to reversal.</p>","PeriodicalId":76014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of mental deficiency research","volume":"23 4","pages":"243-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11379483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children with supernumerary X-chromosome. A ten-year follow-up study of schoolchildren in special classes.","authors":"H Forssman, I Thuwe, B Eriksson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pupils from special school classes affected by supernumerary X-chromosomes (eight girls and eighteen boys) were subjected to a follow-up study over a period of ten years. The risks of social behaviour disturbances, criminality and alcohol abuse were studied, together with that of mental disorder. In the case of the girls no statistically significant differences were found. For the boys, the only difference of statistical significance was that the Klinefelter boys showed a lower frequency of social behaviour disturbances that their controls.</p>","PeriodicalId":76014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of mental deficiency research","volume":"23 3","pages":"189-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11377957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lead and human behaviour.","authors":"H A Waldron","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of mental deficiency research","volume":"22 1","pages":"69-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11565694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of a registry case load survey in predicting trends in rehabilitative needs for the handicapped.","authors":"J R Miller, R P Gallagher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A special follow-up study of handicapped children was carried out to determine the level of residual disability in the caseload of the British Columbia Health Surveillance Registry. A total of 10,689 cases, aged seven or fourteen years were surveyed. Sixty-eight per cent of seven-year-olds and sixty-five per cent of fourteen-year-olds had a residual handicap. Of 3,131 seven-year-olds with a residual handicap, four per cent were not attending a school of any kind. Three per cent of the 4,094 fourteen-year-olds with a residual handicap were not attending school. These figures, along with prevalence statistics obtained through other Registry procedures provide useful minimal data for planning rehabilitative facilities for handicapped persons.</p>","PeriodicalId":76014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of mental deficiency research","volume":"19 2","pages":"101-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11347689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}