A cues-pause-point procedure was used to train two severely retarded females to remain quiet before, during, and briefly after the presentation of questions and then to verbalize on the basis of environmental cues whose labels represented the correct responses. Echolalia was rapidly replaced by correct responding on the trained stimuli. (Author/JW)

A self-monitoring treatment (via taped cues) was used to increase time-on-task behavior of two emotionally disturbed and three mentally retarded elementary grade children, all of whom were easily distracted from class activities. In general, the program resulted in improved attention to task and academic productivity. (CB)

Describes a study which investigated the effect of training in nonverbal and verbal cue identification on notetaking and listening comprehension by 100 Chinese graduate students. The paper also provides a model for future materials development, teaching methodology, testing, and research in this area. (Author/SED)

This study investigates the relative effectiveness with which varied rehearsal strategies facilitate student achievement when instruction is received via visualized prose instruction. Results indicate that different rehearsal strategies, used to complement visualized instruction, are not equally effective in improving student achievement of…

Discusses cognitive processes readers engage in when comprehending instructional text and identifies familiar devices utilized by authors of instructional materials to support each of these processes. Included are appropriate vocabulary and sentence syntax use for intended audience; listing instructional objectives; and use of hierarchical…

Nonverbal communication skill, decoding and encoding nonverbal cues effectively, is an important part of social competence. Merely experience in receiving and sending nonverbal cues, however, is not sufficient to improve nonverbal skill. Consequently, a training program was designed to develop nonverbal sensitivity of school administrators and…

Authors infer from the findings that it may be possible to improve the storage and/or retrieval abilities of retarded children through the development of specific pedagogical cueing procedures. (Authors/MB)

Four groups of kindergarten children were involved in a pretest-posttest experiment comparing verbal cued, visual cued, verbal rule sulpplemented instruction on conservation tasks. Both language level and analytic sorting behavior were reliable predictions of number conservation performance in individual children. (Author/WY)

The recall effectiveness of semantic and phonemic cues was compared to uncover the pattern of deep and elaborate processing in relation to age and experimental treatment. It was concluded that aging results in poor elaboration, especially in inefficient integration of word events with the context of presentation. (Author/CP)

Discusses the relationship between children's knowledge of their language and the process of reading, along with some implications for teachers. (MP)

Sheds light on some of the possibilities and pitfalls of question design for examinations, referring to a specific academic setting as an illustrative case study. A narrative account is presented of a staff "consciousness raising" workshop in which the presenters drew on writing prompts that examiners judged to have work or not work in practice.…

Three of four elementary students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities were successfully taught to use the next dollar strategy (which requires students to present the next dollar amount higher than the price given) in making purchases. The teaching method used natural cues within a system of least prompts and resulted in transfer of…

Investigated children's' ability to detect and interpret another child's nonverbal, representational gestures. Found that in addition to being able to pick up general information such as affective or social information from nonverbal behavior, school-age children are also capable of abstracting specific information such as conceptual or…

A study examined the abilities of three adults with varying degrees of apraxia of speech (AOS) to produce emotional prosody. Acoustic analyses of the subjects' productions revealed that unlike the control subject, the subjects with AOS did not produce differences in duration and amplitude cues to convey different emotions. (Contains references.)…