LEISURE ACTIVITIES OF YOUNG-ADULTS NOT RECEIVING MENTAL HANDICAP SERVICES WHO WERE IN A SPECIAL SCHOOL FOR MENTAL HANDICAP AS CHILDREN

The subjects of this study were 22-year-old adults who had attended a special school for children with mental handicap. Since leaving school , they had dropped out of the mental handicap services. The subjects' leisure activities were compared with peers who had always attended re gular classes as children. The subjects engaged in fewer types of acti vities than the comparisons and had fewer activities that involved int erpersonal relations, especially with non-family peers. The size of th ese differences was influenced by marital status.