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Sensenig, Larry D.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1989
The study examined the effectiveness of using sign language (Signing Exact English) to facilitate reading in students classified as trainable mentally handicapped. Results indicated that subjects learning to read words with an accompanying sign identified and retained significantly more vocabulary than did students learning to read in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Modalities
