Abstract
The notion that educationally significant commonalities exist among disabilities has been generally underemphasized by special educators in their quest for appropriate instructional materials for a given handicap. Language retardation, for example, is the common disability shared by the deaf and the educable mentally retarded (EMR). Through the cooperation of 2 IMC's, instructional material designed specifically to improve the expressive language of the deaf was informally tried out in a class for the EMR. The results of a semiobjective evaluation technique suggested general teacher satisfaction and potential applicability of such instructional materials to the EMR. Implications of the study are discussed in terms of suggesting instructional materials for the deaf and EMR.
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