Three Factors of Adaptive Behavior in Mentally Retarded Children, Adolescents, and Adults

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo Nihira
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

Relationships among Three Measures Used in Screening Mentally Retarded for Placement in Special Education

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter P. Christian ◽  
Daniel R. Malone
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Special Education Program ◽  
Iq Scores ◽  
Behavior Scale ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

This study examined the relationship among Wechsler and Stanford-Binet IQ scores, Wide Range Achievement Test scores, and Adaptive Behavior Scale scores for a sample of 129 institutionalized mentally retarded children and adolescents in a Special Education program. Significant but small to moderate correlations (.26 to .50) were obtained between WRAT and IQ scores and between behavior scale scores and IQ. Each measure differentiated between special education training levels. Use of the Adaptive Behavior Scale may provide an important supplement to more frequently used screening procedures such as IQ and achievement scores.

Programming Language for Severely Retarded Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
Carol McCall Davis
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

This article describes methods of language programming for profoundly mentally retarded children that are based on linguistic principles. Examples of program contents are drawn from research reports and include cuing procedures, as well as progress from receptive through imitative behaviors, labeling responses, and grammatical sequencing.

Trainable Children Can Learn Adjectives, Polars, and Prepositions!

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlys Mitchell ◽  
Carolyn Evans ◽  
John Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Achievement Gains ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Locative Prepositions ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Trainable Mentally Retarded

Twelve trainable mentally retarded children were given six weeks of instruction in the use of adjectives, polars, and locative prepositions. Specially prepared Language Master cards constituted the program. Posttests indicated that children in the older chronological age group earned significantly higher scores than those in the younger group. Children in the younger group made significant increases in scores, particularly in learning prepositions. A multisensory approach and active involvement in learning appeared to be major factors in achievement gains.

Sentence Structures of Trainable and Educable Mentally Retarded Subjects

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn S. Bliss ◽  
Doris V. Allen ◽  
Georgia Walker
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Linguistic Processing ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded ◽  
Story Completion ◽  
Grammatical Structures ◽  
Trainable Mentally Retarded

Educable and trainable mentally retarded children were administered a story completion task that elicits 14 grammatical structures. There were more correct responses from educable than from trainable mentally retarded children. Both groups found imperatives easiest, and future, embedded, and double-adjectival structures most difficult. The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures. The cognitive and linguistic processing of both groups is discussed as are the implications for language remediation.

Bioelectronic Measurement of Nasality in Trainable Mentally Retarded Children

1977 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Daly
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Trainable Mentally Retarded

Fifty trainable mentally retarded children were evaluated with TONAR II, a bioelectronic instrument for detecting and quantitatively measuring voice parameters. Results indicated that one-half of the children tested were hypernasal. The strikingly high prevalence of excessive nasality was contrasted with results obtained from 64 nonretarded children and 50 educable retarded children tested with the same instrument. The study demonstrated the need of retarded persons for improved voice and resonance.

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