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M L Hardman

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PubMed1993

Impact of community-based instruction on the development of adaptive behavior of secondary-level students with mental retardation.

The impact of community-based instruction on the development of adaptive behavior in 34 high school students with moderate to profound mental retardation was examined. Results were: (a) Students made statistically significant gains in three of four domains of the Scales of Independent Behavior; (b) student IQ, level of student ambulation, and presence of behavior problems were not significant predictors of the amount of community-based instruction students received; and (c) the amount of community-based instruction was a more powerful predictor of gains in these domains than were IQ, level of student ambulation, and the presence of behavior problems. Results were discussed in terms of implications for the design and implementation of secondary programs for students with mental retardation.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Employment preparation for high school students with severe handicaps.

An ecological model for employment preparation in high schools that is based upon successful postschool community job placement for students with severe handicaps was discussed. The functions of employment training were analyzed, the components of a community-referenced model for high school training described, and implications drawn for model utility in relation to curriculum and instruction in high school programs.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Postrotary nystagmus response in children with Down's syndrome.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nystagmus response in school-age children with Down's syndrome. The 35 subjects were between 5 and 9 years of age and were enrolled in public school programs for the educable and trainable mentally retarded in the northern metropolitan areas of Utah. The Southern California Postrotary Nystagmus Test (SCPNT) was administered with slightly modified verbal instructions. Durations of nystagmus for the subjects with Down's syndrome were compared with Ayres' normative data from the SCPNT using a t-test for two independent means. Results indicated there was a significant reduction in the duration of nystagmus in the children with Down's syndrome when compared to Ayres' sample of normal children; however, there was no significant difference between males and females with Down's syndrome in duration of postrotary nystagmus.

Child↗
PubMed1977

Generalizing articulation training with trainable mentally retarded subjects.

A multiple-baseline technique was used to evaluate generalization effects during articulation training with trainable mentally retarded subjects. Four target words were selected for each subject on the basis of whether the subject could articulate the word correctly when it was modelled but could not articulate the word correctly in response to a picture of it. Five different settings were selected for generalization probing and training for each subject. In Setting 1, Experimenter 1 initiated training sequentially on all four target words for each subject. Other experimenters probed for correct articulation generalization in four other settings. Training was initiated in these four other settings sequentially only if correct responding failed to generalize to a setting. Results indicated that it was necessary to initiate training on at least three of the four selected target words in at least one additional setting with an additional trainer before correct responding generalized to untrained settings.

Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilitie↗