THE COMMUNITY ADAPTATION OF MILDLY RETARDED PERSONS

这份计划项目建议书是组织最周密的 我们历史上最重要的合作研究提案。它关注的是家庭 在6个文化不同的民族中，主要是低收入少数民族 儿童可能有轻度精神发育迟滞风险的人群， 发育迟缓或相关的适应不良行为。项目4 (Edgerton和Weisner)将追求两个相关的目标：(1)总体 协调文化背景下的家庭适应研究， 重点关注少数民族活动的生态文化领域 在其他项目中研究的人群和(2)亲属的比较 收集的各种自我报告和观察数据的有效性 三个项目。项目10(科南和塔克)将把重点从 唐氏综合症对家庭和社会文化“韧性”因素的研究 保护儿童免受教育延迟和行为障碍的影响 在三个收缩的少数民族人口中--非洲裔美国人， 以及来自伯利兹的新移民加里富纳(“黑加勒比人”)和克里奥尔人。 项目7(加里莫尔和戈登堡)将扩展其对 有发育和发育障碍风险的西班牙裔儿童的早期学校生活 教育延迟，项目6(Nihira和Mink)将继续 文化适应对家庭影响的纵向研究 亚裔美国儿童发育迟缓的环境。

This Program Project proposal is the most carefully organized collaborative research proposal in our history. It focuses on families in 6 culturally different, primarily low-income ethnic minority populations whose children may be at risk for mild mental retardation, developmental delay or associated maladaptive behaviors. Project 4 (Edgerton and Weisner) will pursue two related goals: (1) overall coordination of research on family adaptation in cultural context, focused on ecocultural domains of activity among the ethnic minority populations studied in other projects and (2) comparisons of the relative validity of various self-report and observational data collected in these three projects. Project 10 (Kernan, and Tucker) will alter its focus from Down Syndrome to a study of family and sociocultural "resilience" factors that protect children against educational delay and behavioral disorders in three contractive ethnic minority populations -- African-Americans, and newly immigrant Garifuna ("Black Caribs") and Creoles from Belize. Project 7 (Gallimore and Goldenberg) will extend its research on the early school lives of Hispanic children at risk for developmental and educational delay, and Project 6 (Nihira and Mink) will continue longitudinal research concerning the effects of acculturation on the home environment of Asian-American children with developmental delay.