title: Attention in performance of a complex skill by retarded children.
abstract: Try materials were used to train 9 retarded children to attend to differences in colors and shapes of objects, and Frostig worksheets were used to train the children to attend to left-to-right directionality. Evidence suggests Ss' ability to attend to these characteristics was generalized to a complex bead-stringing task on which significant gains in performance were found immediately after 15 days of practice with training materials and after a 6-mo. interval of no further training or practice.
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003118:Color Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005556:Form Perception; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D011214:Practice, Psychological