Using a naturalistic time delay procedure to teach nonverbal adolescents with moderate-to-severe mental disabilities to initiate manual signs

Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 247-261

  Miller, Carmen ^a   Collins, Belva C ^b   Hemmeter, Mary Louise ^b  

^a Franklin County High School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manual signing; Milieu strategies; Naturalistic time delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036290309     PISSN: 1056263X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016072321661     Document Type: Article

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