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ERIC Number: EJ221736
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Dec
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1237
Children's Knowledge of Mental Retardation.
Budoff, Milton; And Others
Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, v14 n4 p277-81 Dec 1979
A survey of 1,142 normal students in grades 4 through 12 indicated that they knew very little about mental retardation and the mentally retarded. Only about half of the respondents made reference to "subaverage general intellectual functioning," while references to physical impairment were frequent. (DLS)
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level, Mental Retardation, Student Attitudes, Surveys
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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