Job placement histories of 73 mentally retarded sheltered workshop employees placed in Projects With Industry (PWI) or competitive jobs in calendar year 1978 were examined during a 30-month period. Job variables such as structure appear to be more important to job success than employee demographic variables such as IQ. (Author)

Evaluation of the effect of three conditions (reinforcement, self-monitoring, and self-monitoring plus reinforcement) on the productivity rates of three mentally retarded adults employed in a sheltered workshop indicated that reinforcement was most effective when combined with self-monitoring. (Author/DB)

Describes Canadian courses designed to help managers of sheltered workshops. (SP)

The effects of social and monetary reinforcements on mentally handicapped in a sheltered workshop setting were examined. Performance rates were found to be facilitated by visual display and verbal reinforcement more than by token reinforcement techniques. (CD)

Letters were sent to 27 directors of sheltered workshops serving the developmentally disabled requesting their suggestions for topics considered relevant for the inservice training of direct line staff. The area of concern most frequently selected and rated as highest priority by direct line staff was ways to deal with the low-functioning client.…

Ophthalmological screening was conducted on 113 clients in a work activity center for adults with mental retardation. Abnormalities that were neither refractive nor strabismic were found in 32 percent of clients. Findings suggest the value of conducting screenings in settings familiar to such clients. (Author/DB)

The proceedings of this 1984 hearing presents recommendations to improve services for mentally retarded citizens. A report on conditions in intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded is followed by statements of Senators L. Weicker, Jr., J. Randolph, and R. Stafford and by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human…

This KWIC Index was prepared to provide rehabilitation counselors and others concerned with their work and preparation with a basic bibliography in a form which is easy to use. It indexes a substantial portion of the literature published in this field in the last eight years. It is concerned with the types of problems peculiar to rehabilitation…

Examined was the effectiveness of an assessment and training instrument with 32 mentally retarded adults in a sheltered workshop. (CL)

Case study data are presented from two programs designed to teach mentally retarded adults to answer the telephone, transfer calls, and relay telephone messages in a workshop setting. (DB)

The program of a sheltered workshop for the mentally retarded in Belgium is explained to show that workshops which contract industrial job orders can be economically sufficient and at the same time develop technical skills and stimulate socially acceptable behavior patterns or personality development. (GW)

Four supervisors working in a sheltered workshop for developmentally disabled adults participated in a behavior management program. Tests of durability of the altered behavior at three months and six months after completion of training showed that three supervisors had maintained low levels of attending to inappropriate trainee behaviors. (Author)

Results suggested that generally no marked differences in adaptive social behavior across the three groups occurred. (Author/SB)