Teaching Jewish Mentally-Retarded Youngsters Holiday Awareness Through Symbols
The purpose of the study was to test the use of various religious symbols to teach Jewish mentally-retarded youngsters enhanced familiarity with certain Jewish holidays. The participants included 8 students aged from 12-23 years old with various degrees of moderate to severe mental handicap. The stu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2001
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Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2001, Volume: 5, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 123-139 |
| Further subjects: | B
Teaching methods
B religious holidays B Symbols B Mental Retardation B autistic children B Jewish Children |
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| Summary: | The purpose of the study was to test the use of various religious symbols to teach Jewish mentally-retarded youngsters enhanced familiarity with certain Jewish holidays. The participants included 8 students aged from 12-23 years old with various degrees of moderate to severe mental handicap. The study group met eight hours weekly (2 hours biweekly) for a total of 12 weeks. Four categories of questions involving nine different symbols were used. Baseline values were determined in pre- and post-testing. Results demonstrated that all students completing the study showed improvements in symbol recognition. We conclude that use of symbols can provide useful tools to improve communication with mentally retarded individuals. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1300/J095v05n02_10 |