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Peer reviewedCoelho, Carl A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1990
This study of four moderately to severely aphasic subjects found that success in manual sign training programs is related to severity of aphasia, that aphasic subjects' propositional use of manual signs rarely follows simple acquisition, and that generalization to untrained stimuli or environments does not occur without additional training.…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Generalization, Language Acquisition
Download full textJohnson, Jeanne M.; Ruder, Kenneth F. – 1986
A study compared the performance of congenitally deaf signers (N=39) and hearing individuals (N=39) on a bilateral tachistoscopic task. Subjects were exposed to pretested linguistic and nonlinguistic stimuli during the task. Analysis of response time indicated that deaf subjects were slower to respond than were hearing subjects across all…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis, Deafness
