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Direct linkJeon, Hana; Moulson, Margaret C.; Fox, Nathan; Zeanah, Charles; Nelson, Charles A., III – Infancy, 2010
The current study examined the effects of institutionalization on the discrimination of facial expressions of emotion in three groups of 42-month-old children. One group consisted of children abandoned at birth who were randomly assigned to Care-as-Usual (institutional care) following a baseline assessment. Another group consisted of children…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Familiarity, Parents, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Download full textMurphy, Colleen; Figueroa, Maria; Martin, Garry L.; Yu, C. T.; Figueroa, Josue – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2008
Many everyday matching tasks taught to persons with developmental disabilities are visual-visual non-identity matching (VVNM) tasks, such as matching the printed word DOG to a picture of a dog, or matching a sock to a shoe. Research has shown that, for participants who have failed a VVNM prototype task, it is very difficult to teach them various…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Visual Stimuli, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
Cunningham, Thomas F. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedHarris, Larry P. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1980
Eighteen profoundly retarded men (mean age 41) were given repeated presentations of a two-choice visual discrimination using a modified Wisconsin General Test Apparatus and two probabilistic reinforcement schedules counterbalanced for order. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Patterns, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Theories
Wacker, David P. – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1981
Six diagnostic tasks of two choice discrimination skills were used to assess 32 hearing impaired/mentally handicapped adults residing in a state institution. Two tasks measured sign discrimination skill, two measured visual discrimination, and two measured motor discrimination. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Methods, Hearing Impairments, Institutionalized Persons
Irvin, Larry K. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Evaluated was the use of easy to hard visual discrimination vocational training procedures with 24 institutionalized trainable mentally retarded Ss (16-43 years old). (PT)
Descriptors: Adults, Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes
