Mentally Disabled

Life skills training for students with disabilities. What are the life skills?

Mental Health and Learning Disorders

Signs of Mental Illness in Children. Symptoms of mental illness.

An overview of MID or Mild Mental Retardation disability, its impact in the classroom and best practices to support these students.

Down's Syndrome. How to teach a child with Down's Syndrome. Down's syndrome in the classroom.

Life Skills Support in the Classroom

This particular disability will vary in name and criteria somewhat among the various education jurisdictions. However, you'll find information about intellectual disabilities and how to support these students.

One of the most effective techniques for teaching retarded students stems from the effective writing of and the implementation of the behavior objectives. Find out how!

An excellent approach to meeting the needs of the mentally challenged student. This a non violent approach for helping children with special needs and some challenging behaviors focuses important goals.

Behaviour intervention is critical for the mentally retarded child. Here, you'll find support strategies to help you pinpoint and postively change behaviours for this exceptionality.

Early intervention, suppport and behavior resources for the mildly retarded child. How the schools can help.

Find out what mental retardation is, what the signs are and how it's diagnosed. Many tips for parents and teachers to support the student with this exceptionality.

Special Olympics is a non-profit, international program of sports training and competition for individuals with mental retardation.

Strategy Instruction is a tool, plan, or method used for accomplishing a task. Strategy instruction is clearly explained here and can be a great benefit to the instructor or educator of a retarded child.

The Council on Mental Retardation is a private non-profit association of families and friends of persons with mental retardation and offers advice, support and strategies.