Teaching mentally retarded children to use an experimental device for telling time and meeting appointments.
This study evaluated a program for teaching mentally retarded children to use an experimental clock-agenda combination (CAC). The CAC was designed to serve as a prosthetic device for children with minimal numerical skills and time concepts to (a) tell time to the nearest 5-minute interval, and (b) meet scheduled appointments. The target skills were trained in two phases, each of which consisted of two or more steps and substeps. A modified multiple-probe technique was used for each phase. Three mildly mentally retarded children and one moderately retarded child served as subjects. The data indicated that all subjects acquired both skills in 5 to 10 hours.
D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D013664:Teaching Materials; D013995:Time