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A methodological report on household psychometric screening for retardation

Community Mental Health Journal volume 5, pages 88–94 (1969)Cite this article

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This report is a detailed description and analysis of the methods, problems, and results of mental testing carried out in the home as a phase of a community survey of mental retardation. A group of 409 individuals were tested, including a random sample of persons scoring in the lowest 10% of the developmental scales completed by the initial interviewers and a random sample of all persons in the interviewed households. Little testing of this type has been done in most other surveys of this nature; still fewer studies attempted testing in the home itself. The descriptive information on this successful project should be of value to other investigators who are interested in developing community-wide surveys.

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  1. Assistant Professor, Field Coordinator, Department of Exceptional Children, USA

    C. A. Watts M.A.

  2. Assistant Professor, Field Coordinator, Instructional Materials Center, Special Education, University of Southern Californi, USA

    C. A. Watts M.A.

  3. Consultant, Research and Data Processing for the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, USA

    E. G. Sitkei Ed.D.

  4. Professor and Chairman, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Southern California, USA

    C. E. Meyers Ph.D.

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This research was supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. MH-08667; Socio-Behavioral Study Center for Mental Retardation, Pacific State Hospital, Pomona, California; and PHS General Research Support Grant No. 1-S01-PR-05632 from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The authors are educational consultants at Pacific State Hospital, Box 100, Pomona, Calif. 91766.

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Watts, C.A., Sitkei, E.G. & Meyers, C.E. A methodological report on household psychometric screening for retardation. Community Ment Health J 5, 88–94 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01419806

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Keywords

  • Public Health
  • Random Sample
  • Health Psychology
  • Mental Retardation
  • Community Survey