1,2 Taking into account these issues and considering mental retardation (MR) as a paradigm of clinical genetics, we aimed to explore HCPs' and mothers' knowledge, perceptions and attitudes about ...

This book reviews theoretical and empirical work in the developmental approach to mental retardation. Armed with methods derived from the study of typically developing children, developmentalists have ...

An adult with mental retardation who commits a murder should be held legally accountable (assuming the retardation is not so profound as to render him or her incompetent to stand trial).

This study is a major step toward the ultimate goal of treating fragile X syndrome (FXS), an inherited form of mental retardation and the predominant monogenetic cause of autism. The study is also ...

Learn why the R-word, R-worded, or any form of the phrase "mental retardation" is no longer an acceptable way to describe ...