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Manion, Ian G.; Bucher, Bradley – Applied Research in Mental Retardation, 1986
Five nonverbal severely mentally retarded and three nonverbal deaf children learned to use a sign-rehearsal strategy in one of two memory tasks. Generalization to a simpler task was accomplished for two Ss trained in a more complex task. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedCarr, Edward G.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1978
Four nonverbal autistic children (10-15 years old) were taught expressive sign labels for common objects, using a training procedure that consisted of prompting, fading, and stimulus rotation. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Autism, Cues, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Hupp, Susan C.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1981
The learning of categories by six severely handicapped students (8 to 18 years old) was measured within the context of manual sign training. As expected, results supported the best example theory of categorization which suggests that some objects are more representative of their category than others. Implications for classroom material selection…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
