Open AccessSocial development of children with mental retardation
Author(s) -
Indrabhushan Kumar,
Amool Ranjan Singh,
Syeed Akhtar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.57862
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , psychology , mentally retarded , developmental psychology , mental development , intelligence quotient , social change , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , economic growth
Social development of children with mental retardation has implications for prognosis. The present study evaluated whether the social maturity scale alone can reflect on the social maturity, intellectual level and consequent adjustment in family and society of children with mental retardation.