Over a period of S years, 41 retarded children joined numerous kinds of ongoing leisure time activities at a community center. A followup study showed that 3/4 of them had done at least minimally well. Although leaders rated the social behavior of retarded members as significantly different from that of normal children in the same groups, differences were manageable and often diminished with continued exposure to normal children.
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