Employees with mental retardation can lose their jobs because their productivity is low due to an inability to perform their jobs quickly and with a minimum of extraneous movements. This guide presents procedures, borrowed from the business world, that can be used to assist people with mental retardation to improve their work quality and…

Describes a management training course in leadership and human relations at the University of Lagos (Nigeria): the initial participant questionnaire on home organization goals, psychological testing, assignments, study group interaction, lectures, games, feedback, and evaluation. Course objective is to develop effective leadership skills and…

This newsletter theme issue features articles on training of direct service staff working with persons with developmental disabilities in employment, education, and residential settings. The articles examine job training, delivery systems, training models, and implications of current approaches. The newsletter includes three articles presenting…