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Where should the parents of mentally handicapped pre‐school children be trained?
Author(s) -
WOOD JIM,
BERRY IAN
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of the institute of mental subnormality (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0141-2205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1980.tb00508.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , mentally retarded , psychology , medical education , developmental psychology , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence
Summary It is frequently assumed that the best place to train parents how to teach their handicapped children is at home. There are, however, certain economic and organisational advantages in teaching the parents in a hospital/clinic base. In addition, training in such a setting may be more effective in helping the parents acquire a variety of skills and in encouraging them to use such skills independently.