Are Home Economics Teachers Ready for Trainable Mentally Handicapped Students in the Classroom?.

Krinke, Laurel

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ERIC Number: EJ220698

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1980

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Are Home Economics Teachers Ready for Trainable Mentally Handicapped Students in the Classroom?

Krinke, Laurel

Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, v23 n4 p224-26 Mar-Apr 1980

A program in which trainable mentally handicapped (TMH) students are taught home economics skills is described. Discusses why home economics is the area usually chosen for educating TMH, how a suitable curriculum is developed, and how this curriculum can be implemented in food classes and in clothing classes. (CT)

Descriptors: Clothing Instruction, Curriculum Development, Foods Instruction, Home Economics, Homemaking Skills, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Program Descriptions

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Non-Classroom; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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