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)

Reported was a study of the incidence of mental subnormality in the city and county of Bristol on January 1, 1969. (CB)

Results indicated that participants in an in-hospital work-therapy program, randomly selected patients in Fort Logan Mental Health Center, had longer stays in both intensive treatment and total hospitalization and had more readmissions to Fort Logan than nonparticipants. Reprints available from authors at Fort Logan Mental Health Center, Denver,…

An image of the retarded emerged from the drawings, which, generally, were convergent on the adult level but divergent for the adolescents. (Authors)

American social and legal procedures in dealing with children often result not in nurture and protection, but in curtailing of children's rights and arbitrary commitment to institutions." (Editor)

The results indicated that the WAIS IQ for poor premorbids tended to be higher than for good premorbids, but good premorbids demonstrated significantly higher motor performance. There also appeared to be a relationship between lower verbal abstractive and decision-making abilities and length of institutionalization. (Author)