A SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUE FOR USE WITH MODERATELY TO SEVERELY RETARDED PERSONS

Abstract

Education and training of moderately and severely retarded persons emphasizes foundation skills in motor, language, and self-help skills with the primary objective of developing social skills acceptable in a less restrictive environment. Effective and adaptive interrelationships with peers, family, and community are basic and essential to a normalization process. A sociometric measure seems to be an appropriate monitor of the acquisition of skills necessary for making and maintaining adequate interpersonal relations
(socioleaming) and the social changes that occur as a consequence. A pictorial sociometric technique was developed for this purpose.