ABSTRACT
During childhood, the participants of the program described in this chapter had been categorized by their deficits in intellectual and developmental abilities and labeled as either trainable or nontrainable, a label that can remain with them for life. This labeling process places individuals with mild and moderate developmental disabilities within the trainable classification. Unfortunately, all too often the focus of training follows Webster’s Dictionary definition of the word trainable “to form behaviors, habits and mental attitude by discipline and instruction; to make proficient by instruction and practice.” (Kellerman et al., 1981).
