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Peer reviewedSanders, Richard M.; Goldberg, Stephen G. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1977
An almost totally blind, 26-year-old, retarded man whose rate of eye contact was below 30 percent in any time period was trained in his sheltered workshop environment. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Eye Movements, Mental Retardation
Wessell, Margery Hayes – J Speech Hearing Disor, 1969
Descriptors: Case Studies, Eating Habits, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
Download full textOpdahl, Chris A.; Whitehead, Jayme S. – 1976
A backward chaining procedure was used to train a 6-year-old blind, nonverbal, severely mentally retarded boy to dress himself. Trainers performed three types of procedures: no help, verbal instructions, and physical guidance and instructions. Results indicated that the procedure was successful in teaching the skills necessary for dressing, that…
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Blindness, Clothing, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1976
The annotated bibliography on Severely and Multiply Handicapped--Teaching Methods/Assessment contains approximately 120 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1966 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education
Bongers, Kay H.; Doudlah, Anna M. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1972
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Lighting, Mental Retardation
Haworth, Mary R.; And Others – Teach Except Child, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Instructional Materials, Kinesthetic Methods, Language Handicaps
Riall, Ann; Kelly, W. Jeffrey – 1978
The study involving two profoundly retarded, multiply handicapped children (8 and 11 years old) was designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the time delay/stimulus-transfer procedure and a progressive cue teaching strategy on the initial acquisition of verbal control over motor behaviors of Ss. The time delay strategy consisted of two…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Children, Cues, Exceptional Child Research
Wolf, James M. – 1967
Data were collected from 48 chief administrators of schools enrolling 6,696 visually handicapped children to determine enrollment, disabilities, and services; and from 53 special class teachers in 28 of the schools concerning their 453 retarded blind children. Analysis of data revealed that 25% of the population studied were mentally retarded, 85%…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Administrators, Admission Criteria
Frampton, Merle E.; And Others – 1969
In a cerebral palsy-blind experimental school unit for day and residential care, a staff of 13 served 30 children in 6 years with 12 to 17 children each year. All but six children who were found to be nontrainable progressed: eight became trainable, eight trainable and partly educable, and eight educable. Variable progress was found characteristic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Creative Activities, Curriculum
American Association of Instructors of the Blind, Washington, DC. – 1966
THE THEME OF THE CONVENTION WAS "RESEARCH--KEY TO PROGRESS," AND PAPERS WERE DELIVERED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS (1) RESEARCH ON THE TEACHING OF READING AND IMPROVING READING SKILLS, (2) RESEARCH ON INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS AND ORIENTATION, MOBILITY, AND TRAVEL, (3) RESEARCH ON THE CHILD WITH LIMITED BUT USEFUL VISION, (4) RESEARCH ON THE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Braille, Children
