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| Exceptional Child Research | 326 |
| Mental Retardation | 285 |
| Institutionalized Persons | 61 |
| Behavior Change | 60 |
| Severe Mental Retardation | 52 |
| Mild Mental Retardation | 40 |
| Operant Conditioning | 38 |
| Adults | 37 |
| Moderate Mental Retardation | 37 |
| Reinforcement | 28 |
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| Mental Retardation | 326 |
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| Journal Articles | 41 |
| Reports - Research | 34 |
| Opinion Papers | 5 |
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| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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| Researchers | 3 |
| Practitioners | 2 |
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| Wechsler Intelligence Scale… | 2 |
| Adaptive Behavior Scale | 1 |
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Peer reviewedHill, A. Lewis – Mental Retardation, 1974
Reported from a search of 52 sources are categories of special abilities such as fine sensory discriminations and calendar calculations demonstrated by idiot savants (retarded persons exhibiting an unusually developed skill in some special task). (CL)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedDetterman, Douglas K. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Definitions, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGibson, Beryl S.; Reed, John C. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Measured was the effect of a program providing clinical practice and instruction in retardation on the behavior, knowledge and attitudes of 277 students in the 3rd and 4th years of a baccalureate nursing program. (CL)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Nursing
Peer reviewedDietrich, Harry F. – Mental Retardation, 1977
The author satirizes the use of limited sampling techniques to arrive at conclusions about the mentally retarded. (CL)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Research Methodology, Satire
Peer reviewedJacobs, John F.; Alper, Arthur E. – Mental Retardation, 1970
Support presented for the hypothesis that differences in IQ are related to month and season of birth. (RD)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedKelly, N. Karen; Menolascino, Frank J. – Mental Retardation, 1975
Questionnaires completed by 32 pediatricians and general practitioners from a large midwestern city indicated that a large number of them were unfamiliar with local services for the retarded, and 80 percent recommended institutionalization for some of their severely and profoundly retarded patients, while 54 percent made such recommendations for…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Resources, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedThibodeau, Gerard P.; Vitello, Stanley J. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mathematics, Mild Mental Retardation, Programed Instruction
Peer reviewedMenolascino, Frank J.; Heal, Laird W. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Research Needs, Trend Analysis
Peer reviewedO'Connor, Gail; Sitkei, E. George – Mental Retardation, 1975
Questionnaires regarding facility descriptors, development, areas of operational concern, resident characteristics, programs and services were completed by personnel from 3,325 residential facilities for the developmentally disabled. (CL)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Exceptional Child Research, Questionnaires, Residential Programs
Peer reviewedLuckey, Robert E.; Neman, Ronald – Mental Retardation, 1976
State offices of mental retardation were surveyed to determine current methods used to estimate the prevalence of mental retardation. (Author)
Descriptors: Definitions, Exceptional Child Research, Incidence, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedBrandwein, Harold – Mental Retardation, 1973
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Etiology, Exceptional Child Research, Incidence
Peer reviewedHolden, Raymond H. – Mental Retardation, 1972
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Infants, Mental Retardation, Prediction
Peer reviewedLaFontaine, Louise; Benjamin, Gerald E. – Mental Retardation, 1971
Suggested are possible areas of investigation to further clarify issues related to both idiot savants and to the cognitive functioning of retarded children and the population in general. (KW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Research Needs
Peer reviewedRosen, Marvin; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Vocational Adjustment
Peer reviewedSchipp, Steven L.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1980
The results show that orientation was affected by the contingencies, but productivity was not. An increase in task attention did not result in a corresponding increase in productivity. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
