Abstract

All goals set for Year 01 have been met on schedule. Research personnel have been recruited and trained; data indexing and retrieval systems have been completed; a large core sample pool (N equals 289) of psychometrically retarded adults has been generated; based on personal history and demographic data collection with this core sample, 4 sub-samples have been selected for intensive data collection (60 Black and 60 matched White adults--principally for research on communicative competence, 33 young adults currently enrolled in independent living training programs, and 4 sub-samples. While longitudinal data collection will continue as planned, all 4 projects anticipate data collection, analysis and publication in Year 02. Some major topics for Year 02 data analysis are: a network analysis of the personal support systems of independently living adults; a socialinguistic comparison of competence is giving directions between mentally retarded and normal adults; a study of parental beliefs and attitudes about the socioemotional histories of their mildly retarded, adult, children; a comparison of mathematical skills evoked by a test instrument versus similar skills exhibited by the same persons in everyday life.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
2P01HD011944-06
Application #
3096704
Study Section
Mental Retardation Research and Training Committee (HDMR)
Project Start
1980-03-01
Project End
1989-02-28
Budget Start
1985-03-01
Budget End
1986-02-28
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
1985
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of California Los Angeles
Department
Type
Hospitals
DUNS #
119132785
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90095

  Publications

Weisner, Thomas S; Hay, M Cameron (2015) Practice to research: integrating evidence-based practices with culture and context. Transcult Psychiatry 52:222-43
Skinner, Debra; Weisner, Thomas S (2007) Sociocultural studies of families of children with intellectual disabilities. Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 13:302-12
Keogh, Barbara K; Bernheimer, Lucinda P; Guthrie, Donald (2004) Children with developmental delays twenty years later: where are they? How are they? Am J Ment Retard 109:219-30
Daley, Tamara C; Weisner, Thomas S (2003) ""I speak a different dialect"": teen explanatory models of difference and disability. Med Anthropol Q 17:25-48
Moes, Doug R; Frea, William D (2002) Contextualized behavioral support in early intervention for children with autism and their families. J Autism Dev Disord 32:519-33
Root, R; Browner, C H (2001) Practices of the pregnant self: compliance with and resistance to prenatal norms. Cult Med Psychiatry 25:195-223
Lieber, E; Chin, D; Nihira, K et al. (2001) Holding on and letting go: identity and acculturation among Chinese immigrants. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 7:247-61
Press, N; Browner, C H (1998) Characteristics of women who refuse an offer of prenatal diagnosis: data from the California maternal serum alpha fetoprotein blood test experience. Am J Med Genet 78:433-45
Clare, L; Garnier, H; Gallimore, R (1998) Parents' developmental expectations and child characteristics: longitudinal study of children with developmental delays and their families. Am J Ment Retard 103:117-29
Kernan, K T; Sabsay, S (1996) Linguistic and cognitive ability of adults with Down syndrome and mental retardation of unknown etiology. J Commun Disord 29:401-21;quiz 422

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