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Attention and Short-Term Memory in Down's Syndrome.

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Marcell, Michael M. – 1987

To determine whether Downs Syndrome (DS) persons' recall could be improved by procedures that minimized auditory and visual distractions during auditory memory tasks, 16 DS, 12 non-DS mentally retarded and 12 non-mentally retarded persons (mean ages 16, 16, and 5 years, matched for mental age) listened to, looked at, and tried to remember digit…

Descriptors: Attention Span, Auditory Stimuli, Discrimination Learning, Downs Syndrome

Stimulus Equivalence and Receptive Reading by Hearing-Impaired Preschool Children.

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Osborne, J. Grayson; Gatch, Michael B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989

Two five-year-old children with profound hearing impairments were involved in a conditional discrimination task. They were taught to relate manual signs, pictures, and printed words in a nominal matching-to-sample task in such a way that equivalent stimuli resulted. Results showed that the establishment of equivalence relations can promote…

Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Hearing Impairments, Intervention, Learning Processes