Adaptive behavior of mentally retarded adolescents attending school
Salagaras, S.; Nettelbeck, T.
American Journal of Mental Deficiency 88(1): 57-68
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9351 PMID: 6614063 Document Number: 214539
Teachers rated 550 mentally retarded adolescents attending special schools on the AAMD [American Association of Mental Deficiency] Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS). Results established the reliability and criterion validity of the AHS for use among school-age students and demonstrated the sensitivity of the scale to variation in adaptive and maladaptive behavior between subgroups of mentally retarded students representing differences in 7 personal variables: age, sex, estimated intellectual ability, etiology, place of living, the presence or absence of any mobility handicap and use of medications.