Teaching Jewish Mentally-Retarded Youngsters Holiday Awareness Through Symbols

The purpose of the study was to test the use of various religious symbols to teach Jewish mentally-retarded youngsters enhanced familiarity with certain Jewish holidays. The participants included 8 students aged from 12-23 years old with various degrees of moderate to severe mental handicap. The stu...

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Published in:Journal of religion, disability & health
Authors: Carmeli, Varda (Author) ; Carmeli, Eli (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2001
In: Journal of religion, disability & health
Further subjects:B Teaching methods
B religious holidays
B Symbols
B Mental Retardation
B autistic children
B Jewish Children
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Summary:The purpose of the study was to test the use of various religious symbols to teach Jewish mentally-retarded youngsters enhanced familiarity with certain Jewish holidays. The participants included 8 students aged from 12-23 years old with various degrees of moderate to severe mental handicap. The study group met eight hours weekly (2 hours biweekly) for a total of 12 weeks. Four categories of questions involving nine different symbols were used. Baseline values were determined in pre- and post-testing. Results demonstrated that all students completing the study showed improvements in symbol recognition. We conclude that use of symbols can provide useful tools to improve communication with mentally retarded individuals.
ISSN:1522-9122
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1300/J095v05n02_10