Abstract

Project 1 proposes to compare the life circumstances and adaptive behavior of aging mildly retarded persons who have not receive services from the mental retardation service network with their counterparts who do receive such services. Project 2 will collect and analyze life history accounts from members of the same samples used in Project 1. Project 3 will assess the linguistic, communicative, and cognitive abilities that are ultimately acquired by Down Syndrome adults and compare these abilities to those of persons with retardation of non specific etiology. Project 4 will investigate the effect of acculturation on the home environment of mentally retarded Asian-American children. Project 5 will document the early school lives of young Hispanic children at risk for developmental and educational delay. Project 6 will examine women's attitudes toward prenatal diagnostic testing, and identify factors that influence their decisions about its use. Project 7 proposes to compare the behavior of mentally retarded persons who have been given a mental illness classification, with non-emotionally disturbed counterparts. The research designs and methods of these seven projects vary, but each project will take cultural variables into consideration.

  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 #
5P01HD011944-12
Application #
3096714
Study Section
Mental Retardation Research Committee (HDMR)
Project Start
1980-03-01
Project End
1994-02-28
Budget Start
1991-03-01
Budget End
1992-02-29
Support Year
12
Fiscal Year
1991
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of California Los Angeles
Department
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
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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