title: Adaptation to visual--motor rearrangement of mentally retarded individuals: relationship to Adaptive Behavior Scale scores.
abstract: Thirty-five institutionalized, mentally retarded individuals navigated an obstacle course while viewing through an optical prism that displaced the visual field (visual--motor rearrangement). The degree of adaptation to visual--motor rearrangement was assessed and compared with scores on a research version of the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS). The results showed that those individuals who produced the expected patterns of prismatic visual--motor adaptation scored significantly higher on ABS Factors I and II but not III. Factors I and II include a number of items that depend upon sensorimotor integration. Thus, an explicit experimental technique for assessing sensorimotor adaptation was found to support the utility and validity of ABS assessment of mentally retarded individuals.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009048:Motor Skills; D009949:Orientation; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014796:Visual Perception