[[alternative]]The Application Effects of the "Activities Catalog" Curriculum to Junior High School Students with Moderate and Severe Mental Retardation

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to explore the application effects of the "Activities Catalog" curriculum to the junior high school students with moderate and severe mental retardation. A single-subject multiple probe design across behaviors was experimented to four age 13 to 15 students from Wan-Hwa junior high school. Experimental teaching was conducted for eleven weeks with three times a week. Data were presented by graphic method and analyzed by using visual analysis method. Two self-designed instruments, the "Targeted Behavior Checklist" and "Open-question Questionnaires for Teachers", were used to evaluate the effects of the "Activities Catalog" curriculum including leisure, personal management, and work domains. The results of this study indicated that: 1.The "Activities Catalog" curriculum could enhance four subject's abilities of independence living skills, especially in the personal management and work domains. 2.Both of the treatment and maintenance effects during follow-up sessions showed significant improvements in leisure domain. But the favorite degrees of different activities would influence the performances. 3.The treatment resulted in significant improvements and nice maintenance effects in personal management domain. 4.The treatment resulted in significant improvements and nice maintenance effects in work domain. 5.The feedback from four teachers indicated that the curriculum had positive effects. Both of teaching contents and teaching methods were helpful for subjects' present and future lives and for teachers' teaching. Recommendations for the teaching and further studies were offered in this study based on the results.