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Peer reviewedEzell, Helen K.; Goldstein, Howard – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Two children, aged six and nine, with moderate mental retardation were taught syntactic rules for combining known and unknown words into two-word utterances. The use of receptive teaching with imitation of the target phrase facilitated both generalized receptive learning and transfer to production in both subjects. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Generalization, Imitation
