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Baine, David; Sobsey, Dick – Canadian Journal for Exceptional Children, 1986
The steps involved in teaching multiple discrimination to disabled students are listed for ecological, performance, functional, and stimulus analyses. Additional considerations, including stimulus modification and design of the instructional sequence (successive or cumulative approaches), are reviewed. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Discrimination Learning, Stimuli, Teaching Methods
Polloway, Edward A.; Polloway, Carolyn H. – Academic Therapy, 1980
A four-step instructional procedure to assist the learning disabled child to distinguish the distinctive features of letters is described. The procedure involves distinguishing the lower case "b" via a fading out technique from its upper case counterpart "B." The letter directionality can be cued so that the "b-d" distinction is readily apparent.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedDoyle, Patricia Munson; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989
The study compared the effectiveness and efficiency of concurrent and isolation-intermix instruction in teaching four preschool children to read common words in their environment. Concurrent instruction resulted in students learning conditional discriminations in fewer trials and minutes of instructional time suggesting the value of teaching…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedJoyce, Bonnie G.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1993
A stimulus equivalence procedure for the acquisition of English and Spanish words was evaluated with two adolescents having head injuries. Following training on one task, subjects attained and maintained high scores on all matching-to-sample tasks. Results suggest the procedure is effective for teaching foreign language skills to head-injured…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Head Injuries, Instructional Effectiveness, Maintenance
Peer reviewedSmeets, Paul M.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1990
Two time-delay conditions for teaching complex visual discriminations to 14 normal preschoolers, 12 with mild mental retardation, and 11 with moderate mental retardation were compared. Results indicated that for all populations and stimuli, time delay of multiple dynamic distinctive-feature prompts produced learning, while time delay of the single…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Mental Retardation
Schoen, Sharon Faith – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
The article reviews and analyzes existing assistance procedures with moderately to severely developmentally disabled students. Procedures considered include those performed prior to responding and those involved with fading assistance. Implications for selecting assistance procedures are examined. (CL)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Ramanauskas, Sigita – Elementary English, 1974
Teaching activities are suggested for the development of aural language programs. (JH)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
