ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...

Evaluation of a High School Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Implementation

The larval community of coral reef fishes in the Red Sea was studied in coastal and offshore sites to determine the effects of the exposure to waves and currents and the distance from the shore in structuring the larval fish community. Plankton sampling from inshore and offshore sites and the exposed and sheltered sides of the reefs resulted in the collection of 2048 larvae representing 49 diff...

Sheltered employment centres are social enterprises where at least 70% of their workers have disabilities. They a way helping people with disabilities to work in good working conditions and allowing disadvantaged live full life. However, some criticise these businesses for being ghettos public subsidies used inefficiently. Our paper aims test if this criticism is valid by analysing whether comp...

This is the first of a series of papers in which we describe social relationships among mentally disabled adults who worked in four sheltered workshops. In this paper, procedures for observing and interviewing clients and for interviewing staff members were described, and data on reliability and general levels of social behavior were reported. Reliability of social behavior was significant acro...