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Peer reviewedKreger, Kenneth C. – Mental Retardation, 1971
Reduction of environmental stress by altering utilization of living space and increase in availability of varieties of sensory stimulation were successful in improving severe behavioral problems of institutionalized profoundly and severely retarded adults. (KW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Environmental Influences, Institutional Environment
Download full textKlaber, M. Michael – 1969
An introduction by Dr. David D. Komisar provides background and objectives for a study which eventually involved observations in six residential institutions. Two institutions were judged to be ineffective as residents appeared to be not happy or self-sufficient, showed little intellectual growth (or were rarely, if ever, retested), had many…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attendants, Attitudes, Behavior
