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Use of Visual Techniques in Therapy for Developmental Apraxia of Speech.

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Shelton, Ivy Skaife; Garves, Mary Mertes – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1985

The paper describes the development of Signed Target Phoneme (STP) Therapy, using the hand shapes of the Americal Manual Alphabet to cue phonemes. Adding STP to traditional therapy methods with a five-year-old boy diagnosed as having developmental apraxia of speech revealed a positive relationship between application of STP procedures and a more…

Descriptors: Sign Language, Speech Handicaps, Speech Therapy, Visual Learning

New Tests for Identifying Hearing-Impaired Students with Visual Perceptual Deficits: Relationship between Deficits and Ability to Comprehend Sign Language.

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Ratner, Vivienne – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988

The Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities and the Test of Spatial Perception in Sign Language were developed and administered to 682 hearing-impaired students, aged 8-18. Results showed that a significant relationship exists between visual perceptual abilities and the ability to comprehend the essential spatial components of sign language.…

Descriptors: Ability Identification, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification