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Peer reviewedAlbin, Jack B. – Mental Retardation, 1977
A review of current treatment studies of pica or scavenging behavior in the mentally retarded is presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Eating Habits, Etiology
Glover, Dorothy; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
A study of 41 adults with mental retardation (11 with Prader-Willi syndrome and 30 with mental retardation due to other causes--13 overweight and 17 with normal weight) sought to determine differences in food preferences. While controls selected sweet food over larger quantities of unpreferred food, individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome selected…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Eating Disorders
Download full textArcher, Lynda A.; Szatmari, Peter – 1991
The Revised Children's Eating Behaviour Inventory, the Parenting Stress Index, and the Krug Autism Behavior Checklist were used to assess eating/mealtime problems and related variables in 33 young high functioning autistic children (mean age 5 years, 3 months), 295 normally developing children (mean age 5 years, 8 months) and 11 young boys (mean…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales
Katzman, Melanie A.; And Others – 1983
Bulimia, an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, may be increasing in frequency. In order to examine and assess: (1) the prevalence of bulimia in a non-clinical sample of college women; (2) the relationship of reports of binge eating to the fulfillment of operationalized Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III (DSM III) criteria for…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, College Students, Diagnostic Tests
