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Signed English: A Language Teaching Technique with Totally Nonverbal, Severely Mentally Retarded Adolescents
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Linville, Sue Ellen – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1977
Signed English was successfully used to teach language to four totally nonverbal, severely mentally retarded adolescents. (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Language Acquisition, Mental Retardation, Severe Mental Retardation
The Use of a Total Communication Approach with a Nondeaf Child: A Case Study
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Brookner, Sheryl P.; Murphy, Nancy O. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1975
Described are the background and results of use of a total communication approach (combining speech, speechreading, gestures, formal sign language, fingerspelling, printed word, cursive writing, and reading) with a non-deaf, mentally retarded boy (15-years-old) lacking communication skills. (LS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Communication Problems, Deafness