Presents the edited transcripts of some of the discussions authors held over the past year with a 26-year-old man labeled mentally retarded by his family, school teachers, and others in his life. (Author/AM)

A Foster-Grandparent Program group received part-time mothering'' by elderly institutional aids for a period of up to more than 4 years. A control group resided in a similar institution which did not provide supplementary foster grandparent'' care. There was a significant difference in IQ in favor of the FGP children. (Author)

A novel method of plumbing the inner experience of inmates has become part of modern penology as prisoners capture in photographs the caged lives they must live. (Editor)

Outerdirectedness has been defined by first author and his colleagues as a style of problem solving characterized by reliance on concrete situational cues rather than by active attempts to deduce abstract relationships. (Authors/MB)

Two separate cross-validations of a previously published correlational study concerning community adjustment of mentally handicapped persons previously institutionalized were reported. (Author/CB)

Over 200 postschool institutionalized retarded males and females were randomly assigned to four dichotomously stratified (high-low) academic treatment groups. (Author)

Three important problems for research on community tenure among former mental patients are identified. (Author)

Eighty-five institutionalized retardates, some of whom were members of a peer group and some of whom were isolates, were compared for adjustment to the institution and conformity to institution rules. (Author)