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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…
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