Abstract
The Mental Retardation-Expert (MR-E)* is a performance support system (Gery, 1991) for clinicians treating individuals with mental retardation who engage in severe aggressive, self-injurious, or destructive behaviors. Performance support systems (PSS) are computer programs that provide information, technical assistance, and task training. The goal of these systems is to provide users with flexible and nonintrusive assistance, “where they need it, when they need it, in the forms most useful to them” (Carr, 1991, p. 46).
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Hile, M.G. (1996). MR-E The Mental Retardation-Expert: Performance Support for Clinicians. In: Mental Health Computing. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2352-8_1
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