title: Social milieu of a residential treatment center for severely or profoundly handicapped young children.
abstract: Severely or profoundly handicapped young children who lived in a residential treatment center were subjects in a modified time-sampled observation study of social behavior, state, and physical context. The study was conducted for 3 successive years. Although system-level changes in the ecology of the institution over the 3 years did not appear to affect the social-interaction indices, the developmental ages of the children were positively related to social opportunities and social behavior.
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000628:therapy*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012931:Social Environment