Visiting the mentally handicapped in residential care.
Various characteristics of residents of a large hospital for the mentally handicapped were investigated in order to find any associations between these characteristics and the frequency of visiting by parents. The findings suggest that early attachment of the parents to the subjects is of more frequently visited subjects were more likely to recognize people, have some speech and have had a normal appearance as a baby. The unvisited subjects were more likely to have been born with an abnormal appearance and into homes with pre-existing social and emotional problems.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000209:etiology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D012112:Residential Facilities; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D006113:United Kingdom; D014789:Visitors to Patients