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Enhancing the Nonsymbolic Communicative Behavior of Children with Multiple Impairments.

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Downing, June E.; Siegel-Causey, Ellin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1988

The article addresses the need to identify the unconventional, nonsymbolic behaviors of children with severe, multiple disabilities. Suggestions for improving the frequency and quality of communicative interactions by building on the child's current behavioral repertoire. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Interaction Process Analysis, Multiple Disabilities

Developing Primitive Signalling Behavior of Students with Profound Mental Retardation.

Peer reviewed

Sternberg, Les; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1987

Three profoundly retarded students (ages 6, 8, and 12) were taught prelanguage signalling behaviors (grasping the experimenter's finger and tapping the back of one hand with the other) to initiate co-active imitation behaviors with an adult. (JW)

Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Expressive Language