Pre‐school Mentally Handicapped Children

S ummary . Information was collected on 150 mentally handicapped children who were under 5. Many of the children had additional handicaps and all showed marked retardation in their physical, social, play and language development. The majority of parents expressed a willingness to take part in a parental involvement project. Their main concerns were with the child's speech and language development and in coping with management problems. The implications of these findings for services provided for these parents and children is discussed

Coping (psychology) · Developmental psychology · Mentally retarded · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Family and Disability Support Research · Infant Development and Preterm Care · Psychology

• Assessing mentally handicapped children's use of sentence structuring rules

  Open Access•Roy Mc Conkey, ROY McCONKEY et al.•First Language•1982

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