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Peer reviewedAnd Others; Karen, Robert L. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Download full textDever, Richard B. – 1987
This paper is a product of Project COMPETE, a service demonstration project undertaken for the purpose of developing and validating a model and training sequence to improve transition services for moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded youth. The paper reports on a study which surveyed 58 parents of moderately, severely, and profoundly…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Expectation, Moderate Mental Retardation
McCarthy, Walter – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedQuinones, William A. – Mental Retardation, 1978
The study involving 61 moderately retarded Ss (16-41 years old) was designed to develop a battery of tests that would predict the vocational competency of moderately retarded Ss in a sheltered workshop program. (SBH)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
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
And Others; Katz, Shlomo – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Job Simplification
Curtis, Charles K. – 1985
Checklists have been developed with which mildly or moderately mentally retarded people can assess the quality of services provided them in residences and workshops. Based on the normalization principle, the checklists include examination of residential factors (such as the building's external appearance, rules, degree of privacy, and use of…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Consumer Education, Evaluation Methods, Mild Mental Retardation
Rafter, Patrick – Pointer, 1975
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Job Skills, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Horner, Robert H.; And Others – 1977
Reported are four studies on methods to increase the production rates of severely and profoundly retarded adults in the sheltered workshop setting. It is explained that all four Ss had undergone intensive training on a complex task, were able to perform the task at a reasonably high rate, but did not usually maintain a high rate in the production…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Performance Factors, Productivity
Bellamy, G. Thomas; And Others – 1977
Described is the Specialized Training Porgram for severely and profoundly retarded adults, an applied research effort to develop practical habilitation procedures, design programs to implement them, and evaluate the effectiveness of the programs using outcome criteria related to the quality of individual life. Development of the sheltered workshop…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstration Programs, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Peterson, Craig M. – 1969
A system of task analysis and positive reinforcement was used in the vocational training of a 19-year-old trainable retarded youth (MA=6 years). The task of polishing shoe skates was analyzed and programmed into 29 steps and was reinforced with praise and money. The trainee learned the task in 13 sessions (approximately 1 month) and was employed…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Positive Reinforcement
Crosson, James E. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Job Training, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGold, 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
Guy, Barbara A.; Knowlton, H. Earle – Diagnostique, 1987
The case study of a young male adult with moderate to severe handicapping conditions used naturalistic inquiry procedures including interviews and observations of home, community, and employment settings. Decisions had been influenced by personal and cultural values of the participants and reflected a lack of informed choices, miscommunication,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Services, Decision Making, Family Environment
Austin, James T. – Except Children, 1969
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Exceptional Child Education, Instructional Improvement
