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Gazdag, Gail; Warren, Steven F. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2000
Effects of adult contingent vocal imitation on vocal imitation skills of three young (26 to 29 months) children with mental retardation were investigated. All children vocally imitated in response to adult contingent imitation during training. There was minimal generalization to adult contingent imitation and elicited imitation prompts but…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Early Intervention, Generalization, Imitation

Warren, Steven F.; Gazdag, Gail – Journal of Early Intervention, 1990
This study, involving two three-year-olds with mild mental retardation, found that milieu language intervention can directly enhance the acquisition and generative use of lexical and semantic forms used for varied pragmatic functions and that adult systematic commenting and child spontaneous imitation may interact to facilitate the teaching…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Generalization, Incidental Learning, Interaction

Warren, Steven F. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
Five children (27 to 47 months old) with mild to borderline levels of mental retardation were given a milieu language intervention program of 3 or 4 small group training sessions weekly. Results indicated the training had a clear facilitative effect on the acquisition and generalized use of common nouns and verbs by four of the subjects.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Environment, Generalization, Incidental Learning