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Thompson, Travis; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
Thirty adults who had no experience with mental retardation rated slides of residential settings as to their "home-likeness." Of 26 features of living rooms studied, furniture position, lighting type, and lighting flexibility were highly correlated with home-likeness, whereas building code-specific features and seating type were minimally related…
Descriptors: Group Homes, Home Furnishings, Mental Retardation, Normalization (Handicapped)
Westerfield, Judy; Williams, Carolyn – 1983
A program created to help mentally retarded adults move from a state facility to an independent living situation in Jackson, Mississippi, is described. The three stages of the program are outlined as follows: (1) new clients are housed in a cluster unit of apartments close to staff housing, during which time they are assessed according to the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities, Group Homes
Peer reviewedBooth, Tim; And Others – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1991
Evaluation of effects of moving mentally disabled individuals from a British National Health Service hospital into community group homes found much overlap between the institutions' caring routines and practices with the community hostel setting, providing only slightly more opportunities for personal choice, privacy, personalization, integration,…
Descriptors: Adults, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Foreign Countries, Group Homes
