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Telephone-Skills Training for Retarded Adults: Group and Individual Demonstrations with and without Verbal Instruction.
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Smith, Michael; Meyers, Andrew – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1979
It was found that Ss in all conditions showed significant pretest to post-test performance increases on the telephone skills tasks--suggesting that, for skill development tasks with retarded adults, demonstration and verbal summaries may add little to the practice experience and that group delivery of training procedures is cost-effective.…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstrations (Educational), Group Instruction, Institutionalized Persons