title: Adaptive behavior of mentally retarded adolescents attending school.
abstract: Teachers rated 550 mentally retarded adolescents attending special schools on the AAMD Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS). Results established the reliability and criterion validity of the ABS for use among school-age students and demonstrated the sensitivity of the scale to variation in adaptive and maladaptive behavior between subgroups of mentally retarded students representing differences in seven personal variables: age, sex, estimated intellectual ability, etiology, place of living, the presence or absence of any mobility handicap, and use of medications.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology