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Peer reviewedMisawa, Gi-ichi; Obata, Fumiya – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
Analysis of vocational adjustment for 109 male and 89 female mentally retarded workers (ages 16-45) indicated that while no single factor predicted vocational success, work-related personality traits and basic work skills should be emphasized. It is concluded that mental retardation and vocational inadequacy should be considered separately.…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Job Performance
Peer reviewedKatamura, Yuumi; And Others – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
The study examined the stability of vowel articulation for the final vowel in a vowel-consonant-vowel structure by five profoundly deaf and six nonhearing impaired male adults. All deaf subjects showed considerable intra- and interindividual variability. Variability was greatest for center formant frequencies of F1 measured by a Signal Analyzing…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Articulation Impairments, Deafness
Peer reviewedTakahashi, Teruko; And Others – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
Analysis of saccadic eye movements in 10 normal and 10 mentally retarded children (ages 13-15) suggested that retarded children may have difficulty in visual orientation. They followed a visual target on fewer than 50 percent of the trials, displaying frequent undershoot patterns and an average rising latency that was much longer than that of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Eye Movements, Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedNiimi, Akio; Uemura, Katsuhiko – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
Factors identified during an earlier study were used to ascertain features of the stress experienced by mothers of school-aged children with Down's syndrome, other mental retardation, autism, or double (mental and physical) handicaps. The utility of these stress patterns, efficacy of other factors not used, and interview methods are discussed.…
Descriptors: Autism, Disabilities, Downs Syndrome, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTozaki, Noriko; Shimizu, Hiroshi – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
A survey of 203 Japanese schools confirmed the existence of 60 cases of nine different special education programs that had operated during the Taisho Era (1912-1926). Children enrolled were mostly underachievers; few were diagnosed as mentally retarded. A side product of this study was the discovery that many schools are preserving significant…
Descriptors: Archives, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, History
Peer reviewedKuroda, Yoshitaka – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
Work with a mute, autistic, severely handicapped girl over five years (ages 7-11) is analyzed using developmental pragmatics. While she often used interactive acts leading to environmental consequences, she was almost never observed using any that led to a social consequence. She learned to point and gesture but not voluntarily. (Author/VW)
Descriptors: Autism, Body Language, Case Studies, Communication Problems
