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Establishing Generalized Verb-Noun Instruction-following Skills in Retarded Children

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Striefel, Sebastian; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976

In this study, a transfer of stimulus control procedure was used to establish generalized verb-noun instruction-following skills in two severely retarded boys. (Author/JH)

Descriptors: Behavior Development, Conditioning, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition

Emergent Stimulus-Response Relations in Children with Severe Mental Retardation.

Spradlin, Joseph E.; Dixon, Michael H. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995

Two children (ages 10 and 12) with severe mental retardation were trained to make the same response when presented with 2 initially unrelated stimuli and then trained to make a new response when presented with 1 of those stimuli. Children were then assessed on their response to the second stimulus. Results of the tests for the emergent…

Descriptors: Behavior Development, Conditioning, Intermediate Grades, Responses