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Students with Physical or Other Health Impairments
The basic instructional needs of handicapped students are usually associated with their class or type of handicap (e.g., mental retardation, learning... -
Imitation at the Onset of Speech
Imitation, or the tendency to replicate the actions of others, is regarded both as a precursor to language development and a strategy for language... -
Cognitive Assessment of Motorically Impaired Infants and Preschoolers
This chapter considers issues involved in and procedures available for the assessment of infants and preschoolers who have impairments in motor... -
Cognitive Asssessment of Multiply Handicapped Young Children
The basic premise of this chapter is that traditional methods of early cognitive assessment have restricted rather than advanced our ability to... -
Speech and Language Disorders
The process of communication is a highly complex and multifaceted developmental skill. Communicative competence can be viewed as “ the development of... -
Retroactive and proactive interference effects in dual learning of blissymbolics and manual sign
Nonspeech systems can be either aided or unaided. Each system possesses its unique learning and memory characteristics. One instructional strategy...
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Sign Language and Autism
For over a decade, reports have documented the efficacy of sign language intervention techniques with autistic individuals who do not appear to... -
Perceived Communication Needs of Developmentally Delayed Nonspeaking Children
Communication needs of physically disabled nonspeaking public school students were assessed using a job analysis methodology. Based on 128 interviews...
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Evaluation and Programming for Infants and Preschoolers with Neurological and Neuropsychological Impairments
In order to provide an historical context in which to view current practice in our field, the first two sections of this chapter are devoted to brief... -
The postsurgical transsexual: Empirical and theoretical considerations
Two groups of patients served as subjects for the study. Group I consisted of seven biological males (three whites and four blacks) who received...