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Bellamy, G. Tom; Bellamy, Terry T. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1974
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Feltz, Deborah L. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1980
The study investigated the effectiveness of participant modeling as a technique for teaching an educable mentally retarded 12-year-old a task that was considered high in avoidance (a modified forward dive). Participant modeling with self-directed performance at each step was successful in teaching the student a high avoidance diving task. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mild Mental Retardation, Modeling (Psychology)
Williams, Charlotte; Blake, Kathryn – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1974
Described is a current research project designed to determine which reading instructional techniques are most appropriate for intellectually retarded pupils, learning disabled pupils, or intellectually normal pupils from 8 through 16 years of age. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedRoss, Dorothea M.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1973
Intentional training and modeling procedures were used to teach rhythm skills to 14 primary grade, educable mentally retarded children (experimental group) within the context of small-group rhythm bands, pre-dance movement activities, games, and stories during an intensive 4-week program. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Music
Peer reviewedCegelka, Patricia A.; Cegelka, Walter J. – Exceptional Children, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Literature Reviews, Mild Mental Retardation, Programed Instruction
Holt, Laurence E.; and others – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Physical Activities
Download full textTaylor, Arthur M.; And Others – 1974
Due to recent interest in the use of elaborative contexts to enhance associative learning, the effectiveness of elaboration as an instructional technique in vocabulary development was evaluated with 107 educable mentally retarded children in three primary level classes. Ss were given vocabulary instruction under one of three instructional…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Gargiulo, Richard Michael – 1974
Examined were the effects of verbal labels alone and in combination with two types of instruction on the concept attainment of 80 educable mentally retarded and 80 normal boys of school age matched for mental age. For learning the concept "equilateral triangle" Ss were randomly assigned to one of four experimental treatment conditions: verbal…
Descriptors: Age, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedLudy, Isa E.; Stephens, Wyatt E. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research, Films
Peer reviewedBjorgum, Louise; Hudler, Mary Neff – Mental Retardation, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Exceptional Child Research, Language Arts, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedNeville, Donald; Vandever, Thomas R. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Alphabets, Decoding (Reading), Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedVandever, Thomas R.; Neville, Donald D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedVandever, Thomas R.; Neville, Donald D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
To compare the effectiveness of synthetic and analytic reading instruction, 50 educable mentally retarded intermediate level children and an equal number of nonretarded first and second graders were paired on the basis of vocabulary scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedKauffman, James M.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
Two experiments--one with two educable mentally retarded 8-year-old boys, and the other with a 12-year-old learning disabled boy--each compared the effectiveness of two methods of correcting spelling errors: showing the child a correct model versus imitating his errors and then showing the correct model. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Imitation, Learning Disabilities
McGettigan, James F. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1972
An experimental task to determine the effects of materials and transformations on number concept development was administered to 120 educable mentally handicapped children from 8 to 10 years of age and 60 nonretarded kindergarten children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Children, Conservation (Concept), Exceptional Child Research, Intellectual Development
