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Woodwork training for the mildly intellectually handicapped
Author(s) -
NETTELBECK T.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00321.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , vocational education , period (music) , training (meteorology) , quality (philosophy) , rehabilitation , applied psychology , medical education , pedagogy , medicine , epistemology , aesthetics , art , geography , philosophy , paleontology , neuroscience , meteorology , biology
Following an extended period of woodwork instruction, eight mildly intellectually handicapped employees of a vocational rehabilitation centre were compared with ten suitable controls on a woodwork test. The handicapped group achieved a quality comparable with the normal controls although they took significantly longer to complete the test.