Abstract
First of all, in order to measure the effects of our training toward severely retarded adults in our institute, we try to make a check list which aims to evaluate their basic abilities. This check list consist of three categories. The first is called as "abilities of physical movements", e.g. movements of legs and arms, audition, and vision ete.. (Ability 1) The second is named as "abilities for spending his daily life", e.g. putting on or taking off clothes by himself, going to toilet by himself, etc.. (Ability 2) The third is called as "abilities which can recognize external stimulus and actively respond those stimulus". (Ability 3) we want to emphasize that Ability 3 must be the most important part to measure the effects of our training. The surveies by our check list had done twice. The first one was January of 1973, the second one was January of 1974. Subjects of this study were severely retarded adults who were accomodated Hachioji Fukushien Institute under the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. survey The member of the subjects in the first survey were 84 male and female and 95 in the second survey. Main results were summerized as follows: 1) We verified that Ability 3 was important indicator which shows positive improvement of their behavior. 2) We verified that whenever the points of Ability 3 increase, points of the other two abilities also increase. This means that it is enough to make efforts to improve Ability 3, as far as training for severely retarded are concerned. So, according to the results of our serveies, we concluded that our check list which stressed Ability 3 was appropriate for behavioral evaluation of severely retardeds. Next stage of this study will find actual techniques to change Ability 3 under the control of learning theory.
