Critiqued is a 1973 published research report of the Denton State School Study which evaluated the effectiveness of the Doman-Delacato treatment method with mildly and moderately institutionalized retardates. (CL)

Thirty-two assertive situations that varied in social-interpersonal context were administered to 60 hospitalized psychiatric patients via role playing. Support for a stimulus specific theory of assertive behaviors and implications for assertive training are discussed. (Author)

This textbook is a young-adult adventure novel. Every American boy who reads the newspapers is interested in the methods and adventures of the reporters who gather news for the great dailies. They go everywhere, meet all the prominent people of the time, and are constantly in the front of everything that is interesting and exciting. In "The…

The 2 year project (July 1, 1978 through June 30, 1980) sought to determine the viability, attractiveness, and effectiveness of computer based instruction with approximately 225 severely and profoundly mentally handicapped and developmentally disabled institutionalized children and adults. Over 100 instructional formats were developed by staff…

This committee report contains the results of an investigation by young reporters (aged 10-17) from the Children Express magazine into the inappropriate incarceration of neglected or abused children and status offenders not charged with crimes. The hearings include the statements of 25 expert witnesses, researchers, and formerly incarcerated…

To promote the deinstitutionalization of mentally retarded individuals, a three-phase assessment prescription system has been developed. It conceptualizes return to the community as a series of transfers from a restrictive non-programmatic environment (phase one) through specialized short-term program-oriented rehabilitation (phase 2) to the least…

Both clinicians and patients can easily become entangled in the "rights versus rites" debate--that is, the effort to strike a balance between mandated "right to treatment" and emerging "right to refuse treatment." This paper examines legal and psychiatric precedent and practice in those areas and suggests a practical, prudent and palatable middle…

Various quantities and types of services are provided by public and private agencies for older developmentally disabled persons living in the Midwest. Of the 639 questionnaires mailed to public agencies, private agencies, consumer-oriented agencies, nursing homes, and educational institutions, 325 were returned for a response rate of 55%. Overall,…

The paper examines the surrogate parent program at Forest Haven, the District of Columbia's institution for the mentally retarded. The program provides seven major services among which are its function as an advocate for educational, court, and other personal programing and as a monitor of the educational placement of clients. Problems in the…

This paper examines the impact of organizational factors on the rate at which juvenile courts commit referred youth to institutions. Analyzing a national sample, the paper demonstrates that both the rate at which cases are handled informally and the rate at which judges commit those youth who appear before them independently influence the overall…