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| Adjustment (to Environment) | 1 |
| Daily Living Skills | 1 |
| Exceptional Child Research | 1 |
| Institutionalized Persons | 1 |
| Interviews | 1 |
| Mental Retardation | 1 |
| Mild Mental Retardation | 1 |
| Normalization (Handicapped) | 1 |
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| Mental Retardation | 1 |
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| McDevitt, Susan Corominas | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMcDevitt, Susan Corominas; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1978
Data gathered from interviews with 18 persons leaving a residential institution for the mentally retarded and entering independent living indicated such levels of adjustment and functioning as the following: the majority were fully employed as middle-income working persons, all were adept at using public transportation, and almost all would rather…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Daily Living Skills, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
