USE OF SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES WITH MENTALLY RETARDED AND LEARNING DISABLED CHIILDREN

Abstract

The understanding of the social dynamic factors associated with a handicapped person in his interaction with human environments can no longer be restricted to institutional living.
In the past ten years there has been. a strong deinstitutionalization trend in most state and federal legislation regarding the handicapped. In education, this trend has taken its most observable form in the concept of mainstreaming.