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Communication Skills and Community Integration in Adults with Mild to Moderate Retardation.

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Brinton, Bonnie; Fujiki, Martin – Topics in Language Disorders, 1993

This study contrasted communicative skills of 20 community-based adults with mental retardation with those of 20 institutionalized adults. The institutionalized group was more assertive and less responsive than the community-based group. The institutionalized group also devoted more utterances to inappropriate topics and provided fewer repairs…

Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis