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Download full textNam, Sang S.; Hwang, Young S. – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2016
A literature review was conducted to describe important concepts involved in functional analysis of verbal behavior as well as to evaluate empirical research findings on acquisition of picture exchange-based vs. signed mands to suggest instructional implications for teachers and therapists to teach functional communication skills to children with…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Pictorial Stimuli, Sign Language
Direct linkElias, Nassim Chamel; Goyos, Celso – Psychological Record, 2013
This study investigated the effect of matching-to-sample and mimetic-relations teaching on the emergence of signed tact and textual repertoire through a multiple-baseline design, across three groups of three words in children with and without hearing impairments and with no reading repertoire. Following mimetic-relations teaching and the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Imitation
Koester, Lynne Sanford; Lahti-Harper, Eve – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
Infants enter the world prepared to learn about their environments and to become effective social partners, while most parents are equally prepared to support these early emergent skills. Through subtle, non-conscious behaviors, parents guide their infants in the regulation of emotions, language acquisition, and participation in social exchanges.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Deafness, Child Rearing, Infants
Creekmore, Nancy N.; Lloyd, Lyle L. – 1982
The study examined the effects of a pre-training general imitation experience on the learning of manual signs by 12 severely mentally retarded children (8-14 years old) and compared the effectiveness of three training methods--imitation, molding, or both. Ss were exposed to a pre-training experience consisting of either free play or general…
Descriptors: Imitation, Language Acquisition, Manual Communication, Severe Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGoldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1984
Reports that four deaf children of hearing parents, who lacked usable conventional linguistic input, developed a gestural communication system that showed some of the structural regularities characteristic of early child language. Suggests that communication with a number of language-like properties can develop in an atypical language-learning…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Early Experience, Imitation
Peer reviewedBird, Elizabeth Kay-Raining; Gaskell, Annette; Babineau, Michelle Dallaire; MacDonald, Susan – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
Novel word learning in three conditions (signed only, spoken only, signed and spoken combined) was compared for young children (N=10) with Down syndrome and mental-age matched controls. No group differences in frequency of imitations or productions were obtained. The frequency of imitations was highest in the combined condition. In the combined…
Descriptors: Downs Syndrome, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Learning Modalities
