A Taxonomy of Community Living Skills

Abstract

A survey of experts in mental retardation was conducted to assess the forthcoming Taxonomy of Community Living Skills, a guide for curriculum developers and administrators. Items in five domains (personal maintenance and development, homemaking and community life, vocational, leisure, and travel) were rated. Responses were generally favorable. Comments and suggestions made by the experts provided a basis for a revision of the taxonomy and its theoretical exposition.

The acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of first‐aid skills by youths with handicaps

“…Because the target behaviors (i.e., injuries) occur at a low frequency, the skills need to be assessed using simulations (Matson, 1980). The demonstration of acquired first-aid skills is important because individuals who do not know basic first-aid procedures will continue to require assistance from care-givers and will remain somewhat dependent on others (Dever, 1989).…”

Validation of the Activities of Community Transportation model for individuals with cognitive impairments

“…training programme curricula), and only citations in English that specifically addressed community transportation concerns for persons with cognitive challenges. From this search, we identified thirteen training curricula [11,14,15,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29], twelve background information articles relevant to travel training for this population [5,12,13,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38], six specific evaluation studies [16,18,19,[39][40][41] and two travel assessment protocols [42,43].…”

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Menstrual management and intellectual disability: New perspectives

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