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Peer reviewedDuncan, Janice L.; Silverman, Franklin H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
Results of a 10-week program in which 32 moderately retarded persons (3-19 years old) were taught to use American Indian Sign Language (AMERIND) suggested that AMERIND may be preferable to American Sign Language because of its concreteness and its intelligibility to untrained observers. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Manual Communication, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedWaldron, Manjula B. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
A quantitative model of speech development is proposed based on observations of normal hearing and congenitally deaf children. Nonlinear controls used during the development of suprasegmental and segmental aspects of speech are identified. Linguistic components of speech are ignored. The importance of the associative cortex in speech-motor control…
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Manual Communication, Mathematical Models
Peer reviewedSilverman, Franklin H.; Silverman, Ellen-Marie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
