The study investigated a strategy for teaching two moderately retarded adults to perform skills required for driving an automobile. Training consisted of two phases--simulator training and driving-range training. Data supported the claim that moderately mentally retarded individuals are capable of performing complex behaviors. (SB)

Ten moderately retarded adults learned a set of 16 logographic signs. The results supported the feasibility of a logographic system for nonreading retarded adults. (Author)

Twenty-four trainable mentally retarded children (mean age 9-10 years old) were divided into three groups equated by stratified assignment on IQ, MA, and CA. (Author)

Reinforcement was administered contingent upon appropriate actions in order to reduce hyperactive behavior of a trainable mentally handicapped boy. A followup indicated substantial improvement in behavior. (CD)

Individual work settings and tangible rather than social rewards proved most effective in increasing the production rates of six trainable level students engaged in an envelope stuffing task. (KW)

Investigated effects of goal setting on the performance of five moderately retarded adolescents on each of four relatively complex manual tasks. Concluded that feedback tends to increase performance rate over that obtained without feedback, and feedback plus goal setting tends to be superior to feedback alone in some tasks and superior to no…

It was concluded that developmental trends were evident only within the normal sample and that performance of the normal Ss was generally superior to that of the TMR Ss, although significant differences were not obtained at all age levels. (Author/DLS)

Four groups of moderately retarded 7- to 13-year-old children (N =4 in each group) were trained to respond to a triangle with apex up (S+) and not to a triangle with apex down (S-), with and without errors. (Author)