[Features of the organization of occupational therapy in the complex treatment of patients with severe degrees of mental retardation].
A clinical and experimental study of two groups of patients with idiopathic oligophrenia in the stages of idiocy and deep imbecility bordering on idiocy (48 adults aged 23-35 years and 14 boys aged 12-16 years with different terms of total hospitalization) has shown the possibility of changing behavioural reactions of the patients. Stable occupational skills for performing two kinds of elementary work (preparation of half-finished cardboard boxes and assembling of panels) have been cultivated in the patients. The methods for the organization of labor therapy for patients suffering from erectile and torpid forms of this disease have been elaborated. The data suggest that it is possible to develop purposeful forms of behaviour in patients of this group. Comparison of two different age groups shows the necessity of the earliest possible employment of labor therapy in the combined treatment aimed at correcting the psychomotor defects.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D009788:Occupational Therapy
Osobennosti organizatsii trudoterapii v kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh tiazhelymi stepeniami umstvennoĭ otstalosti.