Attention and Motivation Management Techniques with the Mentally Retarded

Abstract

It seems ironic that with all the work and research that has gone into looking at the intellectual “gaps” of retarded children in the complex area of cognition, we have only recently begun looking at the front line questions of:

(i) Does this child really attend to what we are teaching him?

(ii) Does he want to learn what we are teaching him?

The strength or weakness of these factors can alone be sufficient to make a child “intelligent” or “retarded”.