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Dean, Loraine – Elem Engl, 1970
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Verbal Stimuli, Vocabulary

Singh, Nirbhay N.; Solman, Robert T. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1990
This study tested whether conditioning to one member of a compound stimulus can be blocked by presence of a second member to which the response was previously conditioned. Eight mentally retarded students (ages 7-9) were presented with words, sometimes accompanied by pictures. Six students performed best when words were presented without pictures.…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Moderate Mental Retardation

Helsel-Dewert, Marjorie; Van Den Meiracker, Maud – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1987
Twelve learning-handicapped elementary students were exposed to synthetic speech. Subsequently, the children identified a higher percentage of stimulus words presented by a speech synthesizer than did children in a limited exposure group. Both groups correctly identified more words presented by a tape recording than presented by the speech…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Audiotape Recordings, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness