Abstract
In an attempt to improve social interaction between blind and deaf-blind older persons living in the same agency-sponsored residence, a ten-session course in printing in the palm was offered to an experimental group of five blind volunteer subjects.
The sociometric data collected initially and six weeks after the completion of the training revealed no significant changes in attitudes and behavior in either the experimental or the control group. Observations of the Burrwood staff suggested that favorable behavior changes had occurred during and subsequent to the training program but that these changes were short-lived and had largely disappeared by the time that the second sociometric study was conducted.
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