Twenty mentally retarded teen-age girls living at Fairview Hospital and Training Center in Salem, Oregon, were selected to be included in this study. The purpose of the study was to attempt to determine if institutionalized mentally retarded teen-age girls are able to benefit through a class dealing with personal grooming...
The purpose of this study was to determine the possible problem areas in families with a diet-treated phenylketonuric child. Phenylketonuria is an inborn error of metabolism, which in the past caused mental retardation as well as behavioral disturbances. Initially the discovery of diet therapy eliminated the behavioral disturbances, but not...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between poverty and mental retardation and to place mental retardation in its true perspective as a social condition which thrives especially in poverty areas. More specifically, this study attempted to determine if there was any significant relationship between selected social...
The purpose of this study was to compare the number and
type of physical disorders of two hundred educable mentally retarded students and two hundred normal intelligence students. The relationship of physical disorders to sex and age was also investigated.
The descriptive survey method was chosen for the study.
Data...
The purpose of this study was to determine if parents of students
could improve the motor performance of their moderately and severely
mentally retarded children through the implementation of the
Data-Based Gymnasium (DBG) Instructional Model as a supplement to the
school program. The DBG Instructional Model is an individualized
system...
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effectiveness of integrated and segregated settings in elementary physical education. The efficacy of each setting was measured by the quantity of opportunities to respond (OTR) and the quality of those responses. This study examined the frequency and motor appropriateness of OTRs...
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, to determine if planned
interventions could increase untrained undergraduate students' use of positive and
specific skill feedback while a teaching fundamental motor skill to children who are
disabled. Second, to qualitatively assess the effect of specific verbal feedback on
student motor performance....