Reschly D J
Am J Ment Defic. 1981 Jul;86(1):16-20.
Recent suggestions for changes in classification criteria for mild mental retardation, advocated in the literature and by the courts and Federal agencies, were investigated with samples of children from four sociocultural groups. Application of the requirements of sociocultural background and broadly conceived adaptive behavior, using the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment Adaptive Behavior Inventory for Children and Estimated Learning Potential measures, sharply reduced the number and percentages of children eligible for mild mental retardation classification in all sociocultural groups. Implications for the diagnostic construct of mild mental retardation and for the concept of bias in assessment were discussed.
文献、法院及联邦机构所倡导的关于轻度智力迟钝分类标准变更的近期建议，在来自四个社会文化群体的儿童样本中进行了调查。使用《儿童多元文化多元评估适应性行为量表》和估计学习潜能测量方法，应用社会文化背景及广义适应性行为的要求，大幅减少了所有社会文化群体中符合轻度智力迟钝分类标准的儿童数量及百分比。文中讨论了这些结果对轻度智力迟钝诊断结构及评估偏差概念的影响。
