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Language Training for Trainable Mentally Retarded Children: ITPA, Peabody, and Distar Techniques.

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Leiss, Robert H.; Proger, Barton B. – 1977

To determine the most effective language training activities for trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children, the variables of degree of previous language training, IQ, Peabody language treatment program versus Distar language treatment program, pretest versus posttest, and sex were examined with 122 TMR Ss (7 to 14 years old). Results of the…

Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition, Language Programs, Language Skills

An Experiment in Nursery Education. Report of the NFER Pre-School Project.

Woodhead, Martin, Ed. – 1976

This book describes an experimental compensatory preschool program carried out in England between 1968 and 1973. The program combined a traditional nursery program with a daily 20-minute period focusing on specific language and perceptual activities. Experimental and control subjects, 237 in all, were selected from four state supported nursery…

Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries