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Aveno, Arlene; Renzaglia, Adelle – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
The attitudes of staff and management at 62 potential community training sites (such as restaurants, stores, and shops) toward integration of persons with severe handicaps was assessed and compared with those of high school teachers and students. Survey respondents expressed positive attitudes toward normalized use of community facilities.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Normalization (Handicapped)
Fletcher, Donna; Abood, Doris – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
The study evaluated the readability of warning labels on potentially hazardous substances sold in a grocery store. Findings indicated the reading level of half the key words ranged from 4th grade to 10th grade and that many words seldom taught to the moderately or severely retarded appeared frequently and others commonly taught appeared rarely.…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Consumer Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy
Realon, Rodney E.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
A variety of battery operated leisure materials were adapted for easier activation by 10 profoundly mentally retarded nonambulatory and nonverbal institutionalized adults. Demonstration and instruction results supported the use of the adapted materials as a cost-effective means of increasing the independent leisure activity engagements of such…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Electromechanical Aids, Institutionalized Persons
Reis, Elizabeth M. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Attitudes of 60 nonretarded fourth graders toward mildly mentally retarded people were examined. Listening to a story about a mildly mentally retarded boy led to more favorable attitudes on a social distance measure; only students who were asked focusing questions before the story reported more favorable attitudes on an integration-segregation…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Childhood Attitudes, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Stainback, George H.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Virginia school superintendents were surveyed concerning their attitudes toward educating severely and profoundly handicapped students in regular neighborhood schools and regular education. Positive attitudes toward integration existed among approximately half of the 122 superintendents, whereas 15.5 percent held negative attitudes and 34 percent…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Inge, Katherine J.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Twenty mentally retarded individuals placed in competitive employment were compared to a matched group in sheltered workshop settings concerning their quality of life. The competitively employed individuals experienced greater advancement; improved hand strength and weight control; and increased community participation, social vocational skills,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Career Change, Citizen Participation
Wheeler, John J.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Social skills training and self-monitoring were used to remediate socially inappropriate behaviors of a man with Down Syndrome in a supported competitive employment setting. Social behaviors of the moderately mentally retarded man were improved and maintained over a 38-week period, as trainer support was systematically faded over time. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Downs Syndrome
Gast, David L.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Four moderately mentally retarded students, aged 8-13, were taught to read food words found in grocery stores, using constant time delay or system of least prompts procedures. Both strategies produced criterion-level performance in training and other settings, but the constant time delay procedure was more efficient. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Efficiency, Elementary Education
Bryen, Diane N.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Seventeen speech/language pathologists were surveyed concerning reasons for and success of sign language intervention with 118 severely/profoundly mentally retarded students. Though sign language was part of the educational program for approximately one quarter of the students, results suggested that sign language was not an effective…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Educational Practices
Nietupski, John; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
The success of community-based instructional programs for students with moderate/severe handicaps depends on leadership provided by special education administrators. Potential problem areas in which proactive administrative efforts are particularly needed include: providing leadership to staff and parents; staff hiring, allocation, and teaming;…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities)
Zucker, Stanley H.; Polloway, Edward A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1987
The paper presents a rationale for and a discussion of the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Mental Retardation's Board of Directors' position on assessment and identification in mental retardation, especially mild retardation. The historical foundations of identification and assessment, current practices, recommended practices, legal…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Federal Legislation
Hoogeveen, Frans R.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1987
Using seven trainable mentally-retarded students, aged 10-19, the study assessed the efficacy of an action mnemonic procedure for teaching letter-sound correspondences. The subjects were successfully trained to emit appropriate action-sounds in the presence of pictures incorporating the target letter, with picture-prompts being gradually faded to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Mnemonics, Moderate Mental Retardation
Salend, Spencer J.; Giek, Karen A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1987
Twenty-five landlords were interviewed to identify the follow-up supportive services they received when renting to mentally retarded tenants. Results suggested that the systematic delivery of services to landlords and their mentally-retarded tenants by community agencies was limited. Suggestions for services to be provided by independent living…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems
McDonnell, John – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1987
A survey was conducted of 253 parents of severely-handicapped children attending either special schools or integrated programs in regular public schools. Parents of children attending special schools predicted that mainstreaming would be a negative experience, while parents of already integrated children indicated overwhelmingly positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Multiple Disabilities, Outcomes of Education
Schleien, Stuart J.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1987
Nine second-grade children with moderate to severe mental retardation were grouped with 27 nonhandicapped peers in a leisure activity which included gallery viewing of visual art and studio opportunities to manipulate art materials. Handicapped participants' social behaviors and interactions were analyzed, and attitudes of nonhandicapped peers…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Programs, Cultural Activities, Interaction
