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Download full textPosey, Virginia; Jacobsen, Jared – CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (NJ1), 2007
Public perception of adults with developmental disabilities realizing learning gains often remains illusive. This paper highlights key findings in achievement in basic skills for adults with mental retardation on a functional assessment in a life skills context for three program years (2003-2006). In this study the time period between the pre- and…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities
Posey, Virginia; Myers; Diane – CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (NJ1), 2005
The authors discuss special challenges faced by older adults with intellectual disabilities. The 2004 report from The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) stated that in 1970 only about eleven percent of people with intellectual disabilities in the United States were over 55. It is expected that by 2040 the…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Mental Retardation, Caregivers, Older Adults
Posey, Virginia – CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (NJ1), 2005
The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, as part of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, requires programs to use standardized assessments to report learning gains for students in adult education programs. In addition, local and state agencies need an accountability tool for students who are difficult to assess adequately with a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Standardized Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Basic Skills
