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Introducing EMR Children to Arithmetical Operations: A Program Involving Pictorial Problems and Distinctive-Feature Prompts.

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Lancioni, Giulio E.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1987

The study assessed a program involving distinctive-feature prompts for teaching four educable mentally retarded children (ages 7-9) to use appropriate arithmetical operations with multicomponent pictorial problems. Results indicated the program was effective with all subjects. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Arithmetic, Instructional Effectiveness, Mild Mental Retardation, Primary Education

Problem Solving and Strategy Production in Mentally Retarded Persons.

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Ferretti, Ralph P. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989

This review shows that mentally retarded children can produce problem-solving strategies if they comprehend the task requirements, share the experimenter's goal, and construct an optimal problem-solving representation. Instruction with multiple exemplars of a task can induce generalized strategy use, and nonvolitional mechanisms play a role in use…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Mental Retardation, Problem Solving