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Brady, Nancy C.; McLean, Lee K. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
This study examined the discriminability of lexigrams versus printed words with eight adults with severe mental retardation. A match-to-sample teaching paradigm was used. Subjects discriminated lexigrams better than printed letters and were more successful at matching lexigrams to referent objects than matching printed words to referent objects.…
Descriptors: Adults, Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Printed Materials
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Sevcik, Rose A.; Romski, Mary Ann – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1986
Eight severely retarded subjects (ages 9-22), four with functional language and four without, performed identity and nonidentity matching tasks employing objects, photographs, and line drawings. As representational complexity increased, greater difficulty in matching stimuli was observed in the nonfunctional language group, with line drawings…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education