Subject Characteristics and the Communicative Environment of Profoundly Retarded AdultsFootnote^[1]

[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.

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