The study determined that twenty-three mildly to moderately retarded adults living within the community increased their sexual knowledge after attending a twelvemonth, data-based sex education training program. The Lane Community College-Adult Basic Education (LCC-ABE) Pre/Post Test was administered to each subject when he/she began and finished the training program. The Intermittent Probe Tests were administered to each subject after instruction in each of thirteen topic areas in the

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... . The main conclusions were that: (a) the subjects 2 significantly increased their sexual knowledge after training; (b) class, sex, ability level, age, type of residence, and length of time in that residence were not significantly influential in the increase of sexual knowledge; and (c) a significant correlation between the Intermittent Probe Tests and post-test scores indicated a high degre~ of predictability between the two tests and that long-term (over a twelve-month period) retention resulted from training.