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Social Behavior and the Social Acceptance and Rejection of Children with Mental Retardation.
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Siperstein, Gary N.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1996
A study of 43 children with mental retardation working with peers on a cooperative task found that different factors influence peer acceptance and rejection. Acceptance was influenced by overall quantity of a child's interactions and peer perceptions of positive behavior; rejection was influenced by positive behavior of the target child and peer…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Children, Elementary Education, Influences