The present study is fruit of the professional experience during years, in the treatment of children and teenagers with educable mental retardation that study in the Center of Special Education N° 06. It seeks to be a contribution to the exact knowledge of the problem of the student with mental retardation, regarding the relationship between intelligence and social adaptation. The Educational System through the modality of Special Education, comes implementing the opening of Shops where labor training is imparted to the students, in order to qualify them in the acting of a labor activity it specifies that it is what facilitated the rehabilitation of the exceptional one by means of their economic integration to the society, allowing them to find a life with sense and worthy of a human being. Keeping in mind the complexity to select, to locate and to train in a compatible shop with their ...

El presente estudio es fruto de la experiencia profesional durante años, en el tratamiento de niños y adolescentes con retardo mental educable que cursan estudios en el Centro de Educación Especial N° 06. Pretende ser una contribución al conocimiento cabal de la problemática del educando con retardo mental, en lo referente a la relación inteligencia y adaptación social. El Sistema Educativo a través de la modalidad de Educación Especial, viene implementando la apertura de Talleres donde se imparte capacitación laboral a los educandos, a fin de calificarlos en el desempeño de una actividad laboral especifica que es lo que posibilitara la rehabilitación del excepcional mediante su integración económica a la sociedad, permitiéndoles encontrar una vida con sentido y digna de un ser humano. Teniendo en cuenta la complejidad para seleccionar, ubicar y adiestrar en un taller com...

Objectives: To determine the level of depression in students of Medical Technology. Design: Descriptive, cross sectional study. Setting: Professional Academic School of Medical Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Voluntary Medical Technology students. Instrument: Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) consisting in 13 items with 0-3 scale, graded 0-4 rating no depression, 5-7 mild depression, 8-15 moderate depression, over 15 severe depression. Main outcome measures: Depression and severity. Results: From 119 students, 48,7% female and 51,3% male, 38,7% had some level of depression. Among students with some level of depression 54,4% were male. Some form of depression by age was found in 45,7% 15-19 year-old students, in 52,2% 20-25 years, 2,2% over 25 years; mild depression was encountered in 39,1%, moderate depression in 32,6%, a...