Communication Skills and Community Integration in Adults with Mild to Moderate Retardation.

Brinton, Bonnie; Fujiki, Martin

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ERIC Number: EJ464009

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Communication Skills and Community Integration in Adults with Mild to Moderate Retardation.

Brinton, Bonnie; Fujiki, Martin

Topics in Language Disorders, v13 n3 p9-19 May 1993

This study contrasted communicative skills of 20 community-based adults with mental retardation with those of 20 institutionalized adults. The institutionalized group was more assertive and less responsive than the community-based group. The institutionalized group also devoted more utterances to inappropriate topics and provided fewer repairs that contained added information for their listener. (JDD)

Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Group Homes, Institutionalized Persons, Interpersonal Communication, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Normalization (Handicapped), Place of Residence, Responses, Social Integration

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Theme Issue: Adults with Mental Retardation: Maximizing Communicative Competence.