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ABSTRACT
A set of questionnaires concerning subject characteristics, ability to express communicative functions and communicative environment was administered to carers of 70 profoundly retarded subjects in day‐activity centres. The purpose was to investigate the interrelationships among subject characteristics such as cognitive ability and motor ability, ability to express communicative functions, and the communicative environment. A multiple regression analysis in which the level of cognitive impairment and motor ability was adjusted for revealed significant correlations between the subjects’ ability to express communicative functions and communicative enbironment variables as perceived by staff.
[1] The authors gratefuly acknowledge inspiration given to them for this survey by The Environmental Assessment Schedule (Jones et al., 1983). The present work owes its beginning to this work but represents a substantial extension of it. The ‘social enviroment’ portion of the present survey reflects both reductions and extensions from the EAS. The ‘physical environment’ portion of the present survey is largely original work.
Notes
[1] The authors gratefuly acknowledge inspiration given to them for this survey by The Environmental Assessment Schedule (Jones et al., 1983). The present work owes its beginning to this work but represents a substantial extension of it. The ‘social enviroment’ portion of the present survey reflects both reductions and extensions from the EAS. The ‘physical environment’ portion of the present survey is largely original work.