Developing Primitive Signalling Behavior of Students with Profound Mental Retardation.

Sternberg, Les; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ350735

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1987

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Developing Primitive Signalling Behavior of Students with Profound Mental Retardation.

Sternberg, Les; And Others

Mental Retardation, v25 n1 p13-20 Feb 1987

Three profoundly retarded students (ages 6, 8, and 12) were taught prelanguage signalling behaviors (grasping the experimenter's finger and tapping the back of one hand with the other) to initiate co-active imitation behaviors with an adult. (JW)

Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Generalization, Interpersonal Relationship, Modeling (Psychology), Multiple Disabilities, Nonverbal Communication, Prompting, Severe Mental Retardation, Symbolic Language

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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