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Brady, Nancy C.; McLean, Lee K. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1998
This study examined representational matching to sample with 68 subjects with severe mental retardation. Participants differed in their expressive communication and included symbolic (speaking) individuals, distal-gesture users, and contact-gesture users. Contact-gesture users performed significantly more poorly on identical matching to sample…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Body Language, Discrimination Learning, Expressive Language