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Keyes, Joseph B.; Karst, Ralph R. – 1991
This study examined the relationship between the functionality of training objectives established in Individual Program Plans (IPPs) and Individual Education Plans (IEPs) of persons with severe and profound mental retardation and different service delivery environments. Each training objective in the IPPs and IEPs of 78 individuals was classified…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Development, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLoveland, Katherine A.; Kelley, Michelle L. – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1988
Sixteen individuals with autism and sixteen with Down's Syndrome, aged 10-29, were matched for verbal mental age. The groups' scores did not differ on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. However, the adaptive skills of Down's Syndrome individuals kept pace with mental age, while the skills of autistic subjects did not change. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adolescents, Autism, Behavior Development
