The adaptation of the traditional vocational education instructional approach to business skills is reviewed. The project, operating in a residential college facility, indicates that mentally retarded students can learn duplicator machine operation, typing, and basic filing in the same manner as normal peers. Tested intelligence or reading scores do not seem to be correlated to ability of educable mentally retarded girls to learn basic vocational business skills.
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