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TANTRUMS: REMEDIATION THROUGH COMMUNICATION
Author(s) -
ROWE J. A.,
RAPP D. L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1980.tb00152.x
Subject(s) - sign language , sign (mathematics) , psychology , sign system , manual communication , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , communication , linguistics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics
Summary There is a high correlation between behaviour problems, and lack of receptive and expressive language communication. Multiply handicapped children, with varying degrees of physical, mental, emotional, and sensory handicaps, in addition to a communication deficit, can learn a sign language system. Progress in communication through the sign language also results in substantial emotional and behavioural improvements. This paper presents two case studies of such children, and describes in detail the 7 year programme used to develop language through the Paget—Gorman sign system, with a profoundly deaf, subnormal, athetoid, disturbed boy.