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Peer reviewedClarke, Sue; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1988
Five children with severe educational retardation, aged 5-12, were involved in sign training in which the spoken words corresponding to signs were receptively known to participants. Whether signs were taught concurrently or in a serial fashion, signs taught by total communication were acquired faster than those taught by sign-alone training.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Receptive Language, Severe Mental Retardation
