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Hanney, Nicole M.; Tiger, Jeffrey H. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We taught 2 children with visual impairments to select a coin from an array using tactile cues after hearing its name and then to select a coin after hearing its value. Following the acquisition of these listener (receptive language) skills, we then observed the emergence of speaker (expressive language) skills without direct instruction.…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Cues
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Lelli, Colleen – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2014
After children have witnessed domestic violence, the lingering trauma can undermine their ability to learn and succeed in school. With the right classroom strategies, however, teachers can help students relieve stress, reengage in the curriculum, stay focused and organized, attend to tasks, and reestablish relationships.
Descriptors: Trauma, Family Violence, Classroom Techniques, Stress Variables
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Cascella, Paul W.; Trief, Ellen; Bruce, Susan M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
Three trends emerged from independent parent and teacher ratings of receptive communication and expressive forms and functions among students with severe disabilities and visual impairment/blindness. Parents had higher ratings than teachers, receptive communication was rated the highest, and no skills occurred often. Implications are discussed for…
Descriptors: Blindness, Receptive Language, Severe Disabilities, Visual Impairments
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Hough, Susan D.; Kaczmarek, Louise – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
In recent years, many children from Eastern European orphanages have been adopted by families in the United States. When children begin life with their new families, they experience an abrupt language shift in which the learning of their native language halts as the learning of the new language commences. Without the support of their native…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Semantics, Syntax, Oral Language
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Mastrangelo, Sonia – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2009
Play is a complex phenomenon that occurs naturally for most children; they move through the various stages of play development and are able to add complexity, imagination, and creativity to their thought processes and actions. However, for many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), the various stages of play never truly develop, or occur…
Descriptors: Play, Self Destructive Behavior, Autism, Imitation
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Montgomery, James W. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Examined the influence of working memory on the off-line and real-time sentence comprehension/ processing of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Twelve children with SLI, 12 normally developing children matched for chronological age (CA), and 12 children matched for receptive syntax completed three tasks. Suggests that SLI children…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Language Impairments, Language Processing
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Lowenkron, Barry – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
Although the verbal operants that comprise Skinner's account of verbal behavior provide a seemingly complete description of the behavior of the speaker with respect to what is ordinarily called the expression of meanings, it may be shown that the account is intrinsically deficient in describing the receptive behavior of listeners with regard to…
Descriptors: Children, Verbal Stimuli, Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages)
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Staller, Steven J.; And Others – Volta Review, 1994
This paper describes components of the Nucleus 22 Channel Cochlear Implant System used with deaf children and adults. It discusses speech coding strategies, programming concepts, programming the device for children, trouble-shooting, and fitting an FM system to a speech processor. It reports data showing improved ability to use auditory…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Audiology, Auditory Perception