Responsiveness of Male Adolescents with Mental Retardation to Input from Nondisabled Peers: The Summoning Power of Comments, Questions, and Directive Prompts.

Wilkinson, Krista M.; Romski, Mary Ann

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ERIC Number: EJ513488

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Responsiveness of Male Adolescents with Mental Retardation to Input from Nondisabled Peers: The Summoning Power of Comments, Questions, and Directive Prompts.

Wilkinson, Krista M.; Romski, Mary Ann

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, v38 n5 p1045-53 Oct 1995

Sequential analyses of dyadic interactions examined effects of input by 32 normally developing adolescents on responses of 7 male subjects with moderate-to-severe mental retardation. Prompts in the form of questions and comments were more likely to produce responses than directive prompts, and subjects were more likely to respond to male peers than to female peers. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Skills, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Males, Moderate Mental Retardation, Peer Influence, Peer Relationship, Prompting, Questioning Techniques, Responses, Severe Mental Retardation, Social Integration

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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