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Cognitive Training for the EMR Child: Language Skills Prerequisite to Relevant-Irrelevant Discrimination Tasks.

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Ross, Dorothea M.; Ross, Sheila A. – Mental Retardation, 1979

The efficacy of a six-week training program for teaching 20 educable mentally retarded elementary children the language skills prerequisite to distinguishing between the relevant and irrelevant features of a task was evaluated. (Author/CL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research

A Plan of Action for the Habilitation of the Educable Mentally Retarded Child. Final Report.

Ross, Dorothea M.; Ross, Sheila A. – 1978

The report describes the development of the final 2 years of an intensive elementary school curriculum for fifth and sixth grade educable mentally retarded (EMR) children, to provide them with an opportunity to achieve their maximum potential for intellectual development, productivity, independence, and psychological well-being. Most of the…

Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research