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Murphy, Colleen; Figueroa, Maria; Martin, Garry L.; Yu, C. T.; Figueroa, Josue – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2008
Many everyday matching tasks taught to persons with developmental disabilities are visual-visual non-identity matching (VVNM) tasks, such as matching the printed word DOG to a picture of a dog, or matching a sock to a shoe. Research has shown that, for participants who have failed a VVNM prototype task, it is very difficult to teach them various…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Visual Stimuli, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
Walz, Nicolay Chertkoff; Benson, Betsey A. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
The ability of 18 aggressive and 21 nonaggressive men with moderate mental retardation to label and discriminate facial expressions was investigated. Although aggressive participants did not have greater difficulty with emotion labeling, they did have a negative emotional bias for facial expressions that were ambiguous to them. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Difficulty Level, Emotional Response