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Deich, Ruth F.; Hodges, Patricia M. – 1978
Twenty-eight moderately and profoundly retarded children (9 to 17 years old) on one unit of a center for the developmentally disabled were taught a nonvocal symbol system based on that developed by D. Premack. Children varied in speech level from totally nonverbal to some who had simple language skills. The symbol system used a behavioral approach…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Span, Children, Communication Problems
Debes, John L. – 1972
New approaches are needed if educators are to deal successfully with the problem of teaching children to learn to read words well. Interesting questions come to the fore if those who seek solutions to this difficulty regard the reading of words as a subset of the wider problem of reading the class of visual signs in general, which includes (1)…
Descriptors: Body Language, Children, Nonverbal Communication, Reading