One year after the first evaluation, teachers rated 18 hearing impaired children on their frequency of use of the Signed English markers. On the average, the group showed a slight improvement in their use of the marker system. Additionally, frequency of use of each of the 14 markers was also rated by the teachers. (Author)

A comparison of the intelligibility of Ameslan (American Sign Language) and Amerind (American Indian Sign), sign systems in teaching nonverbal handicapped children language, was carreid out with 30 undergraduate students. (Author/CL)

Twelve nonverbal, hearing, retarded children (4 to 8 years old) were matched and then randomly assigned to sign language training, speech training, and placebo groups. The findings were interpreted as indicating that some nonverbal retarded children will benefit more from sign language than speech training. (Author)

Symmetrical signs were acquired significantly faster than were asymmetrical signs, and touch signs were acquired significantly faster than were nontouch signs. Results of the acquisition of iconic v abstract signs were inconclusive. (Author)

Results of an analysis of variance revealed that iconicity enhanced learning, similarity interfered with acquisition, and there was no effect of vocabulary age within the range studied. (Author)

Nine profoundly retarded and institutionalized persons (16-57 years old) were taught over a six-week period to associate gestural signs with a series of pictures depicting these acts and objects. (Author)

Four nonverbal autistic children (10-15 years old) were taught expressive sign labels for common objects, using a training procedure that consisted of prompting, fading, and stimulus rotation. (Author/BD)

The longitudinal study investigated the acquisition of question formation in spoken English and American Sign Language by two young hearing children of deaf parents. The linguistic environment of the children included varying amounts of exposure and interaction with normal speech and with the nonstandard speech of their deaf parents. (Author)

A follow-up was done on a 1976 survey of communication trends in schools and programs for the hearing impaired in the U.S. Although a lower response rate made direct comparison of numbers impossible, the percentage of classes using the various communication modes was consistent with the earlier study. (Author/CL)

A survey of 429 schools serving children classified as ESN(S)--educationally subnormal (severe)--or otherwise handicapped was conducted to find out which sign and symbol systems were used for nonvocal children. (SBH)