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Peer reviewedSands, Deanna J. – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
This study, involving 118 adolescents and adults with deafness, found a high level of concurrent criterion validity for the National Independent Living Skills (NILS) Screening Instrument. The study concluded that the NILS is a valid tool for assessing independent living skills of persons age 16 and older with a hearing impairment and possible…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Concurrent Validity, Daily Living Skills
Peer reviewedLewis, Michael; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Child Development, 1984
Examines differences in habituation in a visual attention task as a function of chronological age, mental age, and handicapping condition. Subjects were 102 children who ranged in age from 3 to 36 months and who were classified as Down Syndrome, cerebral palsied, developmentally delayed, or multiply handicapped. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cerebral Palsy, Disabilities
Peer reviewedNiimi, Akio; Uemura, Katsuhiko – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
Factors identified during an earlier study were used to ascertain features of the stress experienced by mothers of school-aged children with Down's syndrome, other mental retardation, autism, or double (mental and physical) handicaps. The utility of these stress patterns, efficacy of other factors not used, and interview methods are discussed.…
Descriptors: Autism, Disabilities, Downs Syndrome, Elementary Secondary Education
