A study found that the social life of three adults with severe intellectual disabilities improved by removing social barriers through keeping a personal schedule, social activity scheduling, creating a personal information sheet, developing a friendship form, keeping a photo address and activity file, and receiving regular feedback. (CR)

This paper organizes concepts used to describe and measure social life of individuals with mental retardation. Social life involves the people (social network) with whom an individual experiences social interactions and the impact (social support) that network members have on the individual, in the context of social interactions, particularly…

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…