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Peer reviewedJacobson, John W. – Mental Retardation, 1987
Comparison of goals (number and content) in individual program plans for developmentally-disabled persons in New York (N=170), Pennsylvania (N=298), and Tennessee (N=1,275) indicated that goals varied as a function of intellectual level in all three states and as a function of program setting (institutional, community, or residential) in New York.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Differences, Group Homes
Garrard, Kay R. – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1986
Mothers' use of true (non-controlling) and limiting (controlling) questions with 26 developmentally delayed and 26 nondelayed preschool children were examined. More true questions were asked with 4- than 2-year-olds, and with nondelayed than delayed children. Limiting questions decreased as nondelayed children grew older, but increased as delayed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Stages, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedSeibert, Jeffrey M.; And Others – Intelligence, 1984
Do stage-related patterns of early cognitive development reported for normally developing children also characterize at-risk and handicapped children when mental age organization of data is used? Mental age predicted Piagetian-based cognitive levels one to three but did not predict highest-level symbolic functioning in 95 handicapped children.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Correlation, Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Stages
Higgins, Thomas J.; And Others – 1979
The perceptions of parents of 113 developmentally delayed preschool children were compared with mental ages derived from the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale and the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale. With the parents as informants, an Alpern-Boll Developmental Profile was completed. Findings demonstrated a high degree of correlation between the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedLiss, Miriam; Harel, Brian; Fein, Deborah; Allen, Doris; Dunn, Michelle; Feinstein, Carl; Morris, Robin; Waterhouse, Lynn; Rapin, Isabel – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2001
A study involving 35 children (age 9) with high-functioning autism, 31 children with developmental language disorder, 40 children with low-functioning autism, and 17 children with low IQ, found IQ was predictive of adaptive behavior in both low-functioning groups, but language and verbal memory predicted adaptive behavior in higher functioning…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Autism, Children, Cognitive Ability
Download full textBailey, Don; Hatton, Deborah – 2001
This final report reviews the second phase of a life-span study of boys with fragile X syndrome (FSX), the most common known inherited cause of mental retardation. Males with the syndrome are more severely affected than females and in males, delays are usually evident in all the developmental domains, although cognitive and communication skills…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Ability
