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Impacts of Learning American Indian Sign Language on Mentally Retarded Children: A Preliminary Report
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Duncan, Janice L.; Silverman, Franklin H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
Results of a 10-week program in which 32 moderately retarded persons (3-19 years old) were taught to use American Indian Sign Language (AMERIND) suggested that AMERIND may be preferable to American Sign Language because of its concreteness and its intelligibility to untrained observers. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Manual Communication, Mental Retardation
Perception of Sign Language of the Deaf
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Breger, Ilana – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Nonverbal Communication
Identification of Nonlinear Controls in a Developmental Model of Motor Speech in Hearing and Deaf Children.
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Waldron, Manjula B. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
A quantitative model of speech development is proposed based on observations of normal hearing and congenitally deaf children. Nonlinear controls used during the development of suprasegmental and segmental aspects of speech are identified. Linguistic components of speech are ignored. The importance of the associative cortex in speech-motor control…
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Manual Communication, Mathematical Models
Communication and Reasoning Skills of Deaf and Hearing Signers.
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Arnold, Paul; Walter, Gerard – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1979
The two groups were not significantly different on tests of lipreading and reception of signed English, but the hearing Ss were superior on tests of nonverbal reasoning and perceptual speed. Hearing Ss were greatly superior on a test of verbal reasoning. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Stutter-Like Behavior in Manual Communication of the Deaf
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Silverman, Franklin H.; Silverman, Ellen-Marie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Comparison of Sign versus Verbal Symbol Training in Retarded Adults.
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Penner, Kandace A.; Williams, William N. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The relationship between sign and verbal learning was explored using 10 severely mentally retarded adults. They were taught color labels in sign, verbal, or sign and verbal groups. Sign labels tended to be learned more efficiently; combined sign and verbal training improved verbal learning but not sign learning. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes, Oral Language, Severe Mental Retardation