title: Designing environments for mentally retarded clients.
abstract: An environment that stimulates the auditory, visual, and tactile senses increases appropriate behavior among mentally retarded clients and thereby reinforces their learning activities. The author describes several low-cost deisgn techniques for giving a more stimulating and personalized atmosphere to large, existing institutions; discusses design requirements for group homes for retarded and handicapped clients in the community; and summarizes design ideas to be incorporated in new facilities built for retarded clients. She describes the implementation of her design ideas on a unit for blind retarded clients at the Mansfield Training School in Connecticut.
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D004779:Environment Design; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006801:Humans