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Newton, J. Stephen; Horner, Robert H. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1993
A "social guide" model was used to teach staff of an apartment-based residential program to use a set of "community network strategies" to improve the social relationships of three women with severe or moderate mental retardation. The intervention resulted in increased size of participants' social networks and more frequent social integration…
Descriptors: Adults, Females, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention
Foster, Susan; DeCaro, Patricia Mudgett – 1990
Findings are presented from a study of social interactions between hearing-impaired and hearing college students living on one floor of a mainstreamed residence hall at the Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology, home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Twelve ethnographic observations were completed, and interviews were…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, College Housing, College Students, Dormitories