Cloth on the Face Test, Parachute Response and Motor Development in Mentally Retarded Children.

Abstract

Cloth on the face test and parachute response were examined in three hundred and five mentally retarded children and investigated the correlation of the age of the first positive reaction with their motor development. The r esults of the studies showed that the age of positive cloth on the face test and parachute response were not dependent on their ages, but related with their motor development: ramely cloth on the face test mostly correlated with about the time of sitting, and parachute response mostly correlated with that of standing up. Possible reasons of delaye d motor development in mentally retarded children were delayed neurological maturation and retarded mentallity (lack of will, poor surroundings interest etc. ). Cloth on the face test seems more dependent on mentallity and parachute respose, automatic and equilibrium reaction, seems more dependent on neurological maturation rather than mentallity. Our results showed that the etiology of the delayed motor development in mentally retarded children concerned with both poor neurological maturation and retarded mentallity and more complexity one.