ESTABLISHING WORDS AND OBJECTS AS FUNCTIONALLY EQUIVALENT THROUGH MANUAL SIGN TRAINING

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 82  (2) , 178-186
Abstract
The participants were 6 institutionalized retarded human males, each having some receptive and productive speech as well as imitative motor and verbal skills. Nonsense words, signs and objects were used as the stimuli. All participants were sequentially trained to: pair the objects with their identical matches, imitate the manual signs, pair the manual signs with the objects, imitate the nonsense words and pair the manual signs with the words. Following this training, participants were given receptive and productive word-object association probes. All participants performed at an 87% correct level or better on the 1st receptive probes, and all performed at a 73% correct level or better on the 1st productive probes. These individuals demonstrated that following sign-object and sign-word training, they could correctly associate the word with the object.

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