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Download full textFox, Lise; Westling, David L. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
A study of the prevalence of and factors (sex, age, race, residence) relating to prescribed medications for profoundly mentally retarded students (N=92) in a Florida school district revealed that 53 percent received medication. Anticonvulsants, prescribed to 44.56 percent of the students, accounted for 74 percent of all medications. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Drug Therapy, Elementary Secondary Education, Incidence
