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Stimulus Factors in Skill Training of Retarded Adolescents on a Complex Assembly Task: Acquisition, Transfer, and Retention
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Gold, Marc W. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Color Planning, Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills
Vocational Options for Deaf-Blind Youth Through Community-Based Training. Project ADVANCE.
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McGinnity, Betsy L. – 1983
Project ADVANCE currently provides vocational training to 26 deaf-blind adolescents and young adults attending Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. The project has developed community work sites in four different vocational options: (1) competitive employment, (2) a student operated small business, (3) sheltered enclave within…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Resources, Deaf Blind, Employment
Redundant Cue Removal in Skill Training for the Retarded
Gold, Marc W. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1974
Thirty-six mildly and moderately retarded sheltered workshop adolescent and adult clients learned to assemble a 12-piece unit for which the parts were color coded. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
Factors Affecting Production by the Retarded: Base Rate
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Gold, Marc W. – Mental Retardation, 1973
Twenty educable or trainable retarded adolescents and adults in three sheltered workshops, who worked either 1 or 3 hours per day for 10 days under a no-external reinforcement condition, assembled a 14-piece bicycle brake. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills
A Survey of Vocational Education Programs for the Severely Handicapped in North Dakota.
Barta, Roberta Fair – 1981
A study was conducted to determine (1) the entry level skills that are required for admission to selected North Dakota programs for the vocational education of the severely handicapped; and (2) the articulation, if any, between nationwide prevocational training programs' exit requirements and the North Dakota programs' entry requirements. Using a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Adults, Articulation (Education)