A review of the literature indicated a recognition that interview behavior was critical to job placement and successful employment. Previous research, however, has not specified either the structure of inverview training with the mildly retarded or the outcomes of those programs. In a recent study, 29 of 40 mentally retarded young adults filled…

Although they have limited academic ability, mentally retarded children may be quite adept at social interaction or physical, artistic, or other tasks. Research was conducted to examine the creative, self-concept, and impulsive characteristics of MR pupils and to examine and compare, as to age and intellectual development, the performance of both…

While the WISC and Bender-Gestalt are widely used for differential diagnosis, there is a need for empirically determined criteria for classification. Multivariate techniques seem especially promising in classification problems. This study determined the extent to which such an approach can classify children into rational, a priori categories of…

This speech offers a guide to identifying and teaching high-risk children, those who exhibit a lag in development severe enough to be a handicap in learning. The high-risk children focused on are those whose developmental lag is frequently not recognized until they fail in school. The two major areas of neurodevelopmental learning disorders are in…