Sleep Reversal: An Approach to Institutional Care for the Profoundly Retarded.

Leath, Jack R.; Cleland, Charles C.

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ERIC Number: EJ099535

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Publication Date: 1974

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Sleep Reversal: An Approach to Institutional Care for the Profoundly Retarded

Leath, Jack R.; Cleland, Charles C.

Mental Retardation, 12, 2, 24-7, Apr 74

A rescheduling plan for dormitories housing the profoundly retarded is proposed which would involve reversing the sleep rhythm for some residents and allowing a large reduction in the resident attendant ratio with no increase in staff or monies and with more economical use of institutional facilities. (Author)

Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Innovation, Institutional Administration, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Scheduling, Severe Mental Retardation, Sleep

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