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Abstract
Mental retardation is the most common developmental disability in Egypt as it constitutes 73% of all types of handicaps (EL-Sheriff, 1997) and recently much care focused up on mental retardation due to increasing conviction that the mental retarded child like other member of the society, has the right to live and grow as much as their abilities allow them to develop. They should be developed an utilized to the utmost instead of looking of them as an economical burden on their society (Hassen, 1997).
The finding of the study can be summarized as follow:
According to biosocial characteristics of mental retarded children and their families.
The findings showed that the majority of children in this study sample were more than 12 years while 13% only of mental retarded child were the first and third in order in relations to other siblings more than two thirds of mental retarded children were free from any signs related to mental retardation. While the majority of children live with their families and in urban areas. More than half of children were in preparatory school class. The findings of this study revealed that there was a significant correlation between retarded child and residence and there was no significant relationship between residence ad family size and also no significant correlation between residence and scholastic achievement and cognitive abilities of mental retarded child. Also there was no significant correlation between child order and family adjustment.
As regard family and child of daily living activity that there a significant correlation between family adjustment and family and child practice of daily living activities and scholastic achievement.
Concerning to school achievement and cognitive abilities of mental retarded child the study revealed that there was a significant correlation between family adjustment and family and child and of daily living activities to both scholastic achievement and cognitive abilities of mental retarded child