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Peer reviewedSalmon, Donald J.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1986
Generalization of four retarded children's (five to eight years old) object naming responses to stimuli in the natural environment was assessed after training with either objects or pictures. Generalization was typically greater after training with objects. In a second experiment, an alternating procedure resulted in substantial increases in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Generalization, Mental Retardation, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedTaylor, Arthur M.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1977
Three approaches to vocabulary instruction were developed based on research from the training of verbal elaboration strategies with 107 educable mentally retarded children ages 8-11. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation, Learning Processes
Turnure, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – 1976
The effects of five verbal elaboration conditions on the paired associate learning of 50 elementary-aged educable mentally retarded children were investigated. Four of the conditions, crossing functional and positional relations in familiar or unfamiliar events, were included in a two-factor design (type of relation x familiarity); the fifth…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Download full textKahn, James V. – 1977
Investigated was the relative effectiveness of sign language and verbal language training in teaching 12 nonverbal hearing retarded children (4-9 years old) to communicate. Ss were randomly assigned to one of three groups: speech training (based on the Bricker, Dennison, Watson, and Vincent-Smith program), sign language training (adapted from the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Language Instruction
