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Surburg, Paul R. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
The study, with 32 adolescents with mild mental retardation and controls, found that imagery practice facilitated the execution of the reaction time component of a motor task and sometimes facilitated performance of the movement time component of the motor task. (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Imagery, Instructional Effectiveness, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedLane, G. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
Comparison of two strategies--manual guidance only and manual guidance plus verbal prompts--with 6 students (ages 9 to 19) whose multiple disabilities included total blindness and severe mental retardation found that prompting methods that require shifting verbal information to the performance of a manual task may interfere with the learning of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Children, Cues
