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Special Education

Notes • Trainable Mentally Retarded (TMR) : The TMR children have IQ 25 to 50. They are expected
to have physical or sensory impairments and many tend to look different in terms of facial
features and physical characteristics.
• Custodial Mentally Retarded (CMR) : The CMR have IQ below 25. They are so much retarded
in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour that they remain totally dependent on others
for their existence.

13.5 Keywords

• Formal : Received in a school, college or university.
• Adaptive : Concerned with changing, able to change when necessary in order to deal with
different situations.
• Effectively : In a way that produces the intended result.
• Adjustment : A small change made to something in order to correct or improve it.

13.6 Review Questions

1. Who are mentally retarted children?
2. What are the types of mentally retarded children?
3. What are the characteristics of mental retardation?
4. Give the classification of MR children.
5. What are specific characteristics of mentally retarded children?
Answers: Self Assessment
1. (i) Mental deficiency (ii) Intelligence
(iii) Education, behaviour
2. (i) (b) (ii) (a) (iii) (c) (iv) (c)

13.7 Further Readings

1. Special Education: Linda Wilmshurst, Ph.D., ABPP, Alan W. Brue, Ph.D., NCSP
2. Special Education : Laura Rothstein; Scott F.Johnson; Sage Publisher, Inc.
3. Special Education: Daniel P. Hallahan, James M. Kauffman, Paige C. Pullen; Pearson
Education, Inc.

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