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Peer reviewedEzell, Helen K.; Goldstein, Howard – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study compared comprehension of idioms in 66 children comprising 3 groups: normal 9 year olds, 9-year-old children with mild mental retardation, and younger normal children matched with the retarded children for receptive vocabulary age. Although the normal nine year olds comprehended the most idioms, the mentally retarded children performed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Idioms
Peer reviewedMineo, Beth A.; Goldstein, Howard – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
Four developmentally delayed preschoolers were taught action-object responses in receptive and expressive language modalities, using matrix-training procedures. Acquisition of a word combination rule was facilitated by the use of familiar lexical items, whereas subsequent acquisition of new lexical knowledge was enhanced by couching training in a…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Acquisition
