A method of measuring and recording change in scored performance (the outcome) is described, based on the Individual Education Programmes of mentally retarded children over time. This method is being piloted at the Tropical Health Foundation of India with children whose handicaps are in the mild to severe categories. (The pilot excludes children with profound handicap.)
This article is adapted from a paper published in ACTIONAID Disability News 1995, Volume 6, Number 1, by kind permission of ACTIONAID, Bangalore, India.
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