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Peer reviewedGerber, Beverly Levett – Preventing School Failure, 1994
This article explores the use of a computer art program to teach creative decision-making skills to students with moderate mental retardation (ages 16 to 21). Learning characteristics of this population are described. Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive skills is applied to help students progress from concrete to abstract thinking. (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Art Education, Cognitive Development, Computer Uses in Education
