The study was designed to explore whether learning a phoneme in a word-final position facilitated production of the same phoneme word medially or intervocalically in six 3 to 5 year olds with articulation disorders. A stimulus-response-reinforcement approach to treatment was used that elicited both imitative and spontaneous responses. Probe lists…

Piagetian research provides the focus of this article in which Professor Thomas C. O'Brien interviews Professor Hermina Sinclair. Aspects of children's thinking that prefigure scientific theory construction are described and the influence of schooling in inhibiting or suppressing a theory-building human tendency is briefly discussed. The…

The study was designed to increase the range of conversational topics and the appropriateness of topics discussed by three students (9-14 years old) with severe or moderate handicaps. The participants were trained to initiate social conversations and expand upon the social conversations of others within a training context that closely simulated…

The study describes a training program in which young children with severe and moderate handicaps were taught to generalize play responses to multiple sets of toys. A multiple probe design, replicated with four children, was used to assess the effects of generalization training within four sets of toys on generalization to untrained toys from four…

This paper describes some of the more spectacular range effects reported in the literature. (Author)

The use of discrimination learning paradigms in the study of attentional transfer is discussed. (Editor)

Excerpt of a PhD dissertation submitted to the New York University School of Education

In the three studies reported here, an attempt was made to determine whether adult native speakers of English can agree on the choice of phonetic labels for visually presented geometric figures. It was the purpose of these studies to obtain evidence in support of the "phonetic symbolism" hypothesis. An initial study and two replications…

This study attempts to determine if the stimulus generalization concept is applicable to school-relevant instruction when the material to be learned is verbal science information. The delivery techniques under investigation were audio, printed, and a simultaneous combination of both media. Three hundred and thirteen tenth grade biology students…

Proposes that the development of document-retrieval systems can benefit from the incorporation of conceptual modeling techniques, specifically classification, aggregation, and generalization. An array model is presented which has been designed especially for document retrieval. (Author/EM)

The study examined the influence of emotional arousal and increased speaking rate on the generalization of newly learned /r/ phones with 16 misarticulating children (6-11 years old). In contrast to clinical assumptions, no significant differences in the learned phone productions were found under the arousal and increased rate conditions.…

Results of a seven-week sentence stimulation treatment on sentence production in an aphasic adult female with agrammatism indicated that treatment influenced description of test picture sets and that some generalization to other picture sets occurred. (Author/DB)

Several validity typologies are overviewed then integrated. The integrated framework is used to contrast the positions of Campbell and Cronback. The current practice and logic of quasi-experimentation is critiqued, and expansions beyond the primary focus of dominant validity typologies are suggested. (BS)

The effects of single instance and general case instruction on the generalized dressing (putting on of pullover shirts) of six youths and adults with severe mental retardation were compared. Results suggested that the response variations taught during general case instruction played a major role in improved performance across the nontrained…