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Ellefson, Michelle R.; Treiman, Rebecca; Kessler, Brett – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Learning about letters is an important foundation for literacy development. Should children be taught to label letters by conventional names, such as /bi/ for "b", or by sounds, such as /b[inverted e]/? We queried parents and teachers, finding that those in the United States stress letter names with young children, whereas those in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Alphabets
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Allen, Keith D.; Fuqua, R. Wayne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Evaluates the efficacy of two training procedures for eliminating selective stimulus control observed with three trainable mentally retarded children. In another experiment, improvements in stimulus control were not a function of varying degrees of difficulty between stimulus sets or of a prior history of discrimination training with the less…
Descriptors: Children, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Educational Diagnosis
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Kirk, Winifred J.; Johnson, John T., Jr. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Results were interpreted as supporting an inhibition deficit theory of mental retardation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Handicapped Children