Arbitrary symbol learning by adults with severe mental retardation: Comparison of lexigrams and printed words

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 423-427

  Brady, Nancy C ^a,b   McLean, Lee K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Parsons Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EDUCATION OF MENTALLY RETARDED; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030060808     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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