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Development and Training of Referential Communication in Children with Mental Retardation.

Brownell, Marni D.; Whiteley, John H. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1992

Two experiments, involving a total of 126 subjects with mental retardation (mental age from 5-11 years), found that subjects were less likely than controls to employ the "difference rule" (communicate to the listener how a referent is different from other stimuli) and that perceptual feedback training enhances referential communication…

Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Feedback, Interpersonal Communication

Development of Conventional Object Term Descriptions.

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Schmidt, Constance R.; Shatz, Marilyn – Developmental Psychology, 1986

Examines how children's responses to questions about object terms varied across objects and the degree to which children specified common and conventional values for different object dimensions. (HOD)

Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Concept Formation