Barbadian children's understanding of mental retardation
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| dc.contributor.author | Payne, Monica Anne | |
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-18T17:25:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-18T17:25:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1985 | |
| dc.description | DOI: 10.1016/S0270-3092(85)80070-9 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Barbadian children's understanding of the nature and causes of mental retardation, and of the characteristics of mentally retarded children, was investigated using a questionnaire previously employed in the United States by Siperstein and Bak (1980). Subjects were 199 10- to 11-year-olds from four primary schools in Barbados. Results indicated that many Barbadian children, like their American counterparts, confused retardation with orthopedic disabilities and, to a lesser extent, mental illness. A higher proportion of Barbadian children than of American children thought mental retardation was caused by post-natal factors such as childhood accidents, illnesses, parental maltreatment, and drug taking. Equal proportions of boys and girls mentioned causes associated with the pregnant mother, although girls identified a greater variety of such factors. Students generally demonstrated a fairly high degree of empathy with the needs and feelings of mentally retarded peers, and recent public awareness campaigns appear to have had a definite impact upon results | |
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| dc.extent | pp. 185-198 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 181 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/52284 | |
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| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Applied Research in Mental Retardation | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | vol. 6 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | no. 2 | |
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| dc.subject.other | Intellectual disability | |
| dc.title | Barbadian children's understanding of mental retardation | |
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